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Grand Junction is the principal city of the Grand Junction metropolitan area, which had over 150,000 residents in 2020. The city is located in the heart of the Grand Valley, a large Colorado River valley stretching over 30 miles east-to-west and 5 miles north-to-south.
The county seat and most populous municipality is Grand Junction. [3] The county was named for the many large mesas in the area, including the Grand Mesa, which is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world. Mesa County comprises the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
With a population of nearly 60,000, Grand Junction is the largest city on Colorado’s Western Slope. The city takes its name from its location at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado (formerly the Grand) Rivers, in the heart of the Grand Valley.
Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 65,560. [2]
Grand Junction Junior College, a campus of Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. Grand Junction milkvetch, the common name for Astragalus linifolius, a species of flowering plant in the legume family. Grand Junction Rockies, a Pioneer League baseball team.
Grand Junction — a city and the county seat of Mesa County, Colorado, located in the Colorado Western Slope region.
Grand Junction began to thrive when the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad came into the area in 1887. Soon after, major irrigation turned the Grand Valley into a fertile agricultural area. Today Grand Junction is home to a number of light manufacturing and service industries.
The valley is the most densely populated area on the Colorado Western Slope, with Grand Junction serving as an unofficial capital of the region, as a counterpoint to Denver on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in the Colorado Front Range.
The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States. It is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world. [1] It has an area of about 500 square miles (1,300 km 2) and stretches for about 40 miles (60 km) east of Grand Junction between the Colorado River and the Gunnison River, its tributary to the south.
CMU Tech. CMU Tech, formerly known as Western Colorado Community College, is a division of Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado specializing in vocational studies. Students take core curriculum courses at CMU's main campus, but complete their program of study at CMU Tech. Associate degrees from CMU Tech are awarded by Colorado ...