Whitewater is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Mesa County,
Colorado
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, United States, just south of
Grand Junction. The Whitewater Post Office has the
ZIP Code 81527.
It is located on the banks of the
Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is located in western Colorado, United States and is one of the largest tributaries of the Colorado River.
Description
The river flows east to west and has a drainage area of according to the USGS. The drainage basin of the ...
near the confluences with
Whitewater Creek and
Kannah Creek to the south.
Historic places
Near Whitewater are the following historic places:
* Bloomfield Site is a prehistoric archaeological site from 8999 BC - AD 1799, starting with the
Archaic culture. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1983.
* Land’s End Aboriginal Site, an archaeological site from the
Archaic prehistoric period, is listed on the
Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.
*
Land's End Observatory is a historic ranger observatory, off of the
Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway, with a panoramic view of western
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
and eastern
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
''National Register of Historic Places in Mesa County, Colorado''
American Dreams, Inc. Retrieved 2011-10-6.
See also
* List of cities and towns in Colorado
The U.S. Colorado, State of Colorado has 273 municipal corporation, active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 City, cities, and two Consolidated city-county, consolidated city and county governments. The Denver, City and County of Denver ...
* Old Spanish National Historic Trail
* List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
References
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Unincorporated communities in Mesa County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado