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La Junta is a home rule municipality in, the county seat of, and the most populous municipality of Otero County, Colorado, United States. [8] The city population was 7,322 at the 2020 United States Census. La Junta is located on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado 68 miles (109 km) east of Pueblo. The city is home to Otero College.
Otero College was established in 1941 and was named La Junta Junior College. Which was operated by the school district. Which was operated by the school district. In 1949, an election was held to consider proposal that the college become an independent unit supported by the county instead.
The First Baptist Church in La Junta, Colorado. Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D810: Author: Carol M. Highsmith: Exposure time: 1/160 sec (0.00625) F-number: f/10: ISO speed rating: 100: Date and time of data generation: 16:42, 25 May 2015: Lens focal length: 24 mm: Latitude: 37° 59′ 2.94″ N: Longitude: 103 ...
The North La Junta School is a historic school building in North La Junta, Colorado, United States. It was built in 1914 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [ 1 ]
The Eugene Rourke House at 619 Carson St., in La Junta, Colorado, was built in 1898.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1983. [2] The building has many interesting features including a turret, Colonial Revival portico, and iron cresting around the hipped roof.
Otero is a strongly Republican county, although less so than the counties of the Colorado High Plains. It was last won for the Democratic Party by Bill Clinton in 1996. Before that, Otero tended to be a Republican-leaning county at the Presidential level, although it did vote for Wilson twice, FDR in 1932 and 1936, Truman in 1948 and Lyndon ...
La Junta Gardens is a Census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Otero County, Colorado, United States. The population of the La Junta Gardens CDP was 123 at the United States Census 2020. [1] The La Junta post office (Zip Code 81050) serves the area. [3]
The Koshare Indian Museum is an art and scouting museum in La Junta, Colorado. [1] The building, located on the Otero Junior College campus, is a tri-level museum with an attached kiva that is built with the largest self-supporting log roof in the world. [2] The building was built in 1949. [3] The museum features works of Pueblo and Plains ...