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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.
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 .
class 1 hiking [2] Mt. Garfield [3] is the high point of the Book Cliffs, east-northeast of Grand Junction, and overlooking the town of Palisade. Two classic hiking trails ascend the mountain. The mountain was named after President James Garfield a year after Garfield's death. The mountain is composed of Mesaverde Group overlaying Mancos Shale .
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 ...
Kannah Creek. Coordinates: 108°26′49″W. Kannah Creek is a watershed that descends from the top of the Grand Mesa west southwest, where it meets the Gunnison River about 25 miles south of Grand Junction, Colorado. [1] It offers many recreational opportunities, irrigation, and is an important source of drinking water for Grand Junction.
The Lincoln Highway crossed Prairie Creek in southwestern Platte County, Nebraska on this bridge. This is part of a 1.2-mile (2.0 km) section of the highway that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Traveling westward from the Douglas Street Bridge. West to 18th or 24th Street depending on year.
Course of the Colorado River. Map showing the Colorado River basin. The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source. Located in north central Colorado it flows southwest through the Colorado Plateau country ...
NRHP reference No. 92001190. Added to NRHP. March 1988 [1] The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot is a disused railroad depot and train station listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 119 Pitkin Avenue next to the still-in-use Grand Junction station in downtown Grand Junction, Colorado .