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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
| Uravan, Montrose County, Colorado. |
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Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium) is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States,
which still appears on some maps.
The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region.
As a byproduct of vanadium extraction, small amounts of uranium were also produced, at the time mostly used as a yellow pigment for ceramics.
The town was located approximately 90 miles (140 km) south-southwest of Grand Junction along the San Miguel River. At one time, over 800 people lived in Uravan, and the town housed a school, a trading center (store), medical facilities, tennis courts, a recreation center, and a pool. The school and some other facilities remained operational until at least 1983; however, Uravan was shut down by mid-1985, and no traces of its former buildings remain. Uravan is now an uninhabited, undeveloped Superfund site.
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M, Date and time this article was prepared:3:15:39 PM, 8/1/2026. | |