---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410ii–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410ii–1"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410ii-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–G — Chaco Culture National Historical Park"
---

# §410ii–1. Establishment

- (a) **Abolition of Chaco Canyon National Monument—** There is hereby established in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico, the Chaco Culture National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) comprising approximately thirty three thousand nine hundred and eighty nine acres as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Chaco Culture National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)”, numbered 310/80,032–A and dated August 1979. The Chaco Canyon National Monument is hereby abolished, as such, and any funds available for the purpose of the monument shall be available for the purpose of the Chaco Culture National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).
- (b) **Designation of Chaco Culture Archeological Protection Sites—**
  - (1) Thirty-nine outlying sites as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Chaco Culture Archeological Protection Sites”, numbered 310/80,033–B and dated September 1991, are hereby designated as “Chaco Culture Archeological Protection Sites”. The thirty-nine archeological protection sites totaling approximately 14,372 acres[^1] identified as follows:

    | Name: | Acres |
    | --- | --- |
    | Allentown | 380 |
    | Andrews Ranch | 950 |
    | Bee Burrow | 480 |
    | Bisa’ani | 131 |
    | Casa del Rio | 40 |
    | Casamero | 160 |
    | Chimney Rock | 3,160 |
    | Coolidge | 450 |
    | Dalton Pass | 135 |
    | Dittert | 480 |
    | Great Bend | 26 |
    | Greenlee Ruin | 60 |
    | Grey Hill Spring | 23 |
    | Guadalupe | 115 |
    | Halfway House | 40 |
    | Haystack | 565 |
    | Hogback | 453 |
    | Indian Creek | 100 |
    | Jaquez | 66 |
    | Kin Nizhoni | 726 |
    | Lake Valley | 30 |
    | Manuelito-Atsee Nitsaa | 60 |
    | Manuelito-Kin Hochoi | 116 |
    | Morris 41 | 85 |
    | Muddy Water | 1,090 |
    | Navajo Springs | 260 |
    | Newcomb | 50 |
    | Peach Springs | 1,046 |
    | Pierre’s Site | 440 |
    | Raton Well | 23 |
    | Salmon Ruin | 5 |
    | San Mateo | 61 |
    | Sanostee | 1,565 |
    | [Section 8](/usc/16/8.md) | 10 |
    | Skunk Springs/Crumbled House | 533 |
    | Standing Rock | 348 |
    | Toh-la-kai | 10 |
    | Twin Angeles | 40 |
    | Upper Kin Klizhin | 60. |

  - (2) The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) shall be kept on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, the office of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Director of the Bureau of Land Management located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the office of the [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs located in Window Rock, Arizona, and the offices of the Arizona and New Mexico [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Historic Preservation Officers.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “acres are”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–550, title V, § 502, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3227; Pub. L. 104–11, § 3, May 18, 1995, 109 Stat. 158.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1995—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–11 designated existing provisions as par. (1), increased number of outlying protection sites from 33 to 39, updated number designation and date on site designation maps, increased total acreage from 8,771 to 14,372 acres, and added par. (2).