Purty Rock, New Mexico

Purty Rock is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McKinley [County, New Mexico|McKinley County], New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 [United States census|2020 census], it had a population of 163.

Geography

The CDP is in the western part of McKinley County, on the south side of the valley of the Puerco River, a west-flowing tributary of the Little [Colorado River]. Purty Rock, a butte, is to the south. The CDP includes the unincorporated community of Defiance along a former alignment of U.S. Route 66. Interstate 40 passes through the CDP, with access from Exit 16, to the east, or from Exit 8, to the southwest. Gallup, the McKinley county seat, is to the east.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Purty Rock CDP has an area of, all land.

Demographics

Purty Rock was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Education

It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.
Zoned schools are: Tobe Turpen Elementary School, Chief Manuelito Middle School, and Gallup High School.