Uravan, Colorado Overview
Uravan, Colorado includes 2 nearby coal leases. 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.
Quick Facts
- Located in Montrose County, Colorado.
- Uravan, Colorado sits 1,521 meters (4,990.2 feet) above sea level feet above sea level.
Coal Lease News From The Coal Fields™
Learn more about the Bureau of Land Management, Public Land Survey System, and coal leases.
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Understanding Lease Ownership
We receive lots of emails from people who find their name or a relative’s name on our site and want to know if this means they have some right to the land listed under that name.
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Understanding BLM Administrative Areas
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Understanding Location Data
Lease handled by the Bureau of Land Management are not mapped by latitude and longitude, instead, these leases harken back to the Public Land Survey System.
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Understanding Townships
A “township” can refer to two different things. Both are part of the PLSS measurement system but have different uses.
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