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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.
Location of Mesa County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mesa County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
The town of Grand Junction was founded on September 26, 1881, by the Grand Junction Town Company. The founder of the town, George A. Crawford, was a Civil War veteran and President of the Grand Junction Town Company. He was accompanied by William McGinley, J. Clayton Nichols, and four unidentified companions. By 1882, the settlement had ...
In Colorado, U.S. 50 connects Grand Junction with Montrose, Gunnison, and Pueblo, and to the west, it travels into the state of Utah. SH 340 runs east–west, starting at First Street in downtown Grand Junction, traversing the Redlands and ending at U.S. Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 50 in Fruita.
The decision was made to abandon the mine, town, and railroad in 1925. Three Grand Junction teenagers suffocated to death while exploring the Book Cliff Mine on August 13, 1989. Following the incident the mine adit was permanently sealed.
The North Seventh Street Historic Residential District, in Grand Junction, Colorado, is a 14.4 acres (5.8 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It included 27 contributing buildings. [1]
The State of Colorado creates Garfield County from a portion of Summit County. [64] January 26: The Town of Dillon incorporates. [63] January 9: James Benton Grant assumes office as the third Governor of the State of Colorado. 1882: December 19: The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches the Colorado-Utah Territory border west of Grand Junction ...
Loma is an unincorporated town, post office, and census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Loma post office has the ZIP Code 81524. [4] At the 2020 census, the population of the Loma CDP was 1,314. [5]