Ojo Encino () is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, on the Navajo Nation. As of the 2020 census, the population was 222.
Geography The community is in the northeast corner of the county, by road west of Cuba and northeast of Gallup, the McKinley county seat. It is on the west side of the valley of Encino Wash, a southeast-running tributary of Torreon Wash, Arroyo Chico, and eventually Rio Puerco, a tributary of the Rio Grande.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of , all land.
Demographics
Ojo Encino was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
Education The Bureau of Indian Education operates the Ojo Encino Day School, a K-8 school. it has 25 employees and 173 students.
Ojo Encino is in the Gallup-McKinley County Schools school district. - See map of Ojo Encino CDP Zoned schools are: Crownpoint Elementary School in Crownpoint, Crownpoint Middle School in Crownpoint, and Tseʼ Yiʼ Gai High School. - KML files: Elementary boundaries and locations, Middle boundaries and locations, and High boundaries and locations.
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