Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gunnison County, Colorado.

Official Website

In 1876 Colorado entered the Union and Gunnison County was formed. 1879 was a year of expansion due to the miners, speculators and adventurers seeking wealth. The cattle industry was established by 1880. The short growing season was not conducive to farming and the ranchers had to level fields and construct irrigation ditches to water the fields for hay. The county was named for John W. Gunnison, a United States Army officer and captain in the Army Topographical Engineers, who surveyed for the transcontinental railroad in 1853.

In 2007, the science fiction horror film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was set in and around the town of Gunnison.

Adjacent Counties

• Chaffee County
• Saguache County
• Pitkin County
• Delta County
• Mesa County
• Montrose County
• Hinsdale County
• Ouray County

Cities, Towns & Communities

• Almont
• Baldwin
• Crested Butte
• Crystal
• Doyleville
• Gunnison (County Seat)
• Iola
• Marble
• Mount Crested Butte
• Ohio City
• Parlin
• Pitkin
• Pittsburg
• Powderhorn
• Sapinero
• Somerset
• Tincup
• Vulcan

Links

Wikipedia

National Register of Historic Places

Curecanti National Recreation Area

Gunnison National Forest

White River National Forest

Collegiate Peaks Wilderness

Fossil Ridge Wilderness

Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness

Powderhorn Wilderness (part)

Raggeds Wilderness

Uncompahgre Wilderness

West Elk Wilderness

Genealogy Trails

CO Gen Web

New Horizons Genealogy