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Website. www .gjcity .org. Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the seat of government and largest city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] Grand Junction's population was 65,560 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the most populous city in western Colorado and the 17th most populous Colorado municipality overall.
2413110 [5] Website. www .parachutecolorado .com. The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. [6] The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
08-15605. GNIS feature ID. 2413226 [2] Website. www .colorado .gov /townofcollbran. Collbran is a statutory town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town's population was 369 at the 2020 Census. [4] Collbran is a part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The name Rio Colorado ("Red River") was first applied to the Colorado by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in his maps and written reports resulting from his explorations to the Colorado River Delta and his discovery that California was not an island but a peninsula (1700–1702). Kino's 1701 map, "Paso por Tierra a la California," is the first ...
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is part of the Museums of Western Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] The Orchards are known for showing how life was on an orchard at the turn of the twentieth century and is considered living history as ...
The geography of the U.S. State of Colorado is diverse, encompassing both rugged mountainous terrain, vast plains, desert lands, desert canyons, and mesas. Colorado is a landlocked U.S. state. In 1861, the United States Congress defined the boundaries of the new Territory of Colorado exclusively by lines of latitude and longitude, stretching ...
The McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (MCNCA) is a 123,400-acre (499 km 2) National Conservation Area located in Mesa County, west of Grand Junction, Colorado.The MCNCA has rugged sandstone canyons, natural arches, spires, and alcoves carved into the Colorado Plateau, through which runs a 24-mile (39 km) stretch of the Colorado River.
Area code. 970. GNIS feature. 2408997 [1] Orchard Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Orchard Mesa CDP was 6,688 at the 2020 census. [3] The Grand Junction post office ( ZIP Code 81503) serves ...