Saint Johns (Navajo: Tsézhin Deezʼáhí, pronounced [tsʰéʒìn téːzʔáhí]) is the county seat of Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 180, mostly west of where that highway intersects taking into consideration U.S. Route 191. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 3,480.

The location was originally called Tsézhin Deezʼáhí in Navajo, a citation to its stone formations. The site of a useful crossing of the Little Colorado River, it was well along called El Vadito (Spanish for “the Tiny crossing”) by Spaniards as they first explored the area. Starting in 1864, a trader named Solomon Barth began crossing the Place as he moved salt from a salt lake in Zuni territory to Prescott, Arizona. In a poker game in 1873 Barth earned passable money to purchase cattle and enough estate in Saint Johns to start a ranch bearing in mind his brothers Nathan and Morris. He tainted the declare from El Vadito to San Juan. There is some controversy as to whether this was in praise of the first girl resident, Maria San Juan Baca de Padilla, or of the feast of San Juan. William R. Milligan arrived in 1866, followed by Frank Walker in 1870. By 1872 a Spanish-American agricultural community had developed. A stone cabin was erected by Juan Sedilla in 1874. Solomon Barth sold out to Mormon Ammon M. Tenney in 1875 or 1879. A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints community named Salem and led by David King Udall was time-honored just north of the town below the management of Wilford Woodruff on March 29, 1880, and after that moved to sophisticated ground by Erastus Snow upon September 19 of the similar year.

St. Johns has been the county seat for almost everything of Apache County’s history. When the county was created upon February 24, 1879, Snowflake was designated the county seat. After the first election in fall 1879, county government was set up in St. Johns, though it was moved once again in 1880, to Springerville; in 1882 St. Johns again became the county seat, and it has remained hence ever since.

Saint Johns is located at 34°30′7″N 109°22′18″W / 34.50194°N 109.37167°W / 34.50194; -109.37167 (34.501921, -109.371543), in the White Mountains in northeast Arizona. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 26.1 square miles (67.6 square kilometers), of which 25.9 square miles (67.1 km) is home and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km²), or 0.68%, is water.