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ID: 2015678
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2015678
Record Type:
administrative
Grand Junction (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 03 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.0500
decimal degrees
Long: 108 33 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -108.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located W Colorado at confluence of Gunnison & Colorado Rivers; is trade center for area.
Names:
Grand Junction
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for junction of rivers
West Denver
(
H
,
V
)
Ute
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Colorado
(state) (
P
)
................
Mesa
(county) (
P
)
....................
Grand Junction
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by ranchers in 1881 following expulsion of Ute Indians, incorporated in 1891
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
............
for agricultural produce from irrigated farms & as headquarters for uranium production
mining center (
C
)
............
for vanadium, oil shale & gilsonite since 1950s
oil field site (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for irrigated farming, especially peach orchards
transportation center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
............
for nearby Colorado National Monument, lake-studded Grand Mesa & for Uncompahgre & Grand Mesa National Forests
educational center (
C
)
............
for Mesa College (1925)
Sources and Contributors:
Grand Junction..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 417
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8005770
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
456
Ute..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 417
West Denver..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 417
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 417
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8005770
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
456
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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