The Navajo meridian, established in 1869,United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service (May 2003) National Mapping Program Technical Instructions Part 5: Public Land Survey System Standards for USGS and USDA Forest Service Single Edition Quadrangle Maps, p. 5A-3, draft is one of the two principal meridians for Arizona, the other being the Gila and Salt River meridian. Its initial point was stated as latitude 35° 45' north, longitude 108° 32' 45" west from Greenwich, but has been revised as "List of Meridians" from Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States; 1973, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, Technical Bulletin 6; pub. U.S. Dept of Interior, from Principal Meridian Project The Navajo meridian and baseline were used to set townships and ranges in a special survey for the original Navajo Reservation,Hubbard, Bill, Jr. (2009) "Navajo Meridian, 1869" American Boundaries: The nation, the states, the rectangular survey University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 338, Zajac, Terrence M. and Myler, Charles E. (1996) Arizona Real Estate: Practice and Law Real Estate Education Co., Chicago, Illinois, and was set at the eastern boundary of that reservation. The Arizona lands surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline were ranges six west to ten west and townships one north to fourteen north, and included Canyon de Chelly National Monument."Act Authorizing Establishment of Canyon de Chelly NM" Appendix 6 of the Administrative History of Canyon de Chelly, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior
While the above-mentioned Arizona lands still reference the Navajo meridian and baseline, in New Mexico the surveys of lands originally surveyed under it were canceled in 1936, and have since been resurveyed using the New Mexico meridian and baseline. In Arizona, only the portions of the Navajo Reservation that are east of the Hopi Reservation were surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline.Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior (3 February 2000) Federal Register 65(No.23): p. 5365
See also List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the United States
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