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Grand Junction, Colorado. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Mesa. Associated ZIP codes: 81501, 81502, 81503, 81504, 81505, 81506, 81507.
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The Colorado High School Activities Association announced the football playoff brackets on Sunday with teams from the area represented in every classification.
It may come as a surprise, but Colorado State University is home to some of the nation's leading tropical storm researchers.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed five teenage boys when the car drove off the road and over a cli...
Five 17-year-old boys from Grand Junction, Colorado, died when their vehicle plunged off a cliff along Lookout Lane, with speed being investigated as a possi...
Tuesday was the first day of school for students in Grand Junction, and the western Colorado school district shared a statement during the day about the trag...
Investigators believe the car was headed southbound on Lookout Lane when it veered off the road in Grand Junction and crashed, police said.
The Grand Junction Union Depot project was one of a dozen projects across Colorado to receive the Community Revitalization Tax Credit (CRTC) from the state o...
Richard Pena, 37, broke into 11 Coinstar kiosks inside grocery stores along the I-70 corridor between Grand Junction and metro Denver over four days in Novem...
The Museum of the West in Grand Junction is temporarily closed due to an “unexpected failure of the building’s air conditioning system,” Museums of Wes...
Mike Chavez of Grand Junction is still amazed at his good timing. "It was quite the ordeal. One second ahead and the cab is crushed. One second behind,...
A red flag warning has been issued for Southwest Colorado by the U.S. National Weather Service in Grand Junction as high temperatures, low humidity and stron...
Durango BMX riders opened the Colorado state qualifier season with an impressive showing full of victories at Grand Valley BMX in Grand Junction on May 30, w...
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Grand Junction is in Mesa County, Colorado.
Region: Western Colorado
81501, 81502, 81503, 81504, 81505, 81506, 81507
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In September 1881 the former Ute territory in western Colorado was abolished and the Utes were forced onto a reservation so the government could open the land to settlers. George Addison Crawford, born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, soon bought land there, and on July 22, 1882, he incorporated the town of Grand Junction, named for its place where the Gunnison River meets the Grand, now the Colorado. Crawford also planted Colorado's first vineyard near Palisade, and the area became known as Colorado Wine Country. Before incorporation the community had been called Ute and, briefly, West Denver, and it had a lively early history of gunfighters, miners and settlers.
The narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railroad arrived from Pueblo by way of Gunnison in 1882, and the standard-gauge Rio Grande Junction Railway came from New Castle in 1890, jointly owned by the Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland. The railroads drove the settlement and growth of the area. From 1909 to 1921 Grand Junction elected its officials under an unusual ranked-ballot method known as the Grand Junction system, invented by the resident James W. Bucklin, who described it in his 1911 book The Grand Junction Plan of City Government and Its Results. Sources Wikipedia: Grand Junction, Colorado
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