Place:Uravan, Montrose, Colorado, United States

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NameUravan
Alt namesJoe Junior Millsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS8018326
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates38.367°N 108.733°W
Located inMontrose, Colorado, United States
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Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium) is an abandoned uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, that is now a Superfund site. 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 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 trace of its former buildings remain.

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