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The Western Slope region is sparsely populated, containing 38% of Colorado's area but only 10.7% of its population. The region had a population of 563,138 in July 2013, an increase of 0.6% on the previous year, and had a low growth rate over the previous three years compared to the rest of the state.
Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.The city has a council–manager form of government. [8] It is a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide, and the largest city in Colorado outside of the Front Range Corridor.
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
Greeley began as the Union Colony of Colorado, which was founded in 1869 by Nathan C. Meeker, an agricultural reporter for the New York Tribune, as an experimental utopian farming community "based on temperance, religion, agriculture, education and family values," with the backing of the Tribune ' s editor Horace Greeley, who had visited Colorado in the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush and had ...
Crop fields in western Weld County Rock formation near the Pawnee Buttes. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,017 square miles (10,400 km 2), of which 3,987 square miles (10,330 km 2) are land and 30 square miles (78 km 2) (0.7%) are water. [16] It is the third-largest county in Colorado by area.
In 1874, Grand County was created out of the northern half of Summit County, and in 1877, Grand County was further subdivided, creating Routt County. It would be another 34 years before Moffat County would be carved out of the western portion of Routt County. [7] The county was named for David H. Moffat, a Colorado tycoon who died in 1911.
Cedaredge is a home rule municipality located in Delta County, Colorado, United States. [1] It is a small, agricultural community with 2,279 residents as of 2020, [4] producing beef cattle, elk, apples, and peaches.