Gunnison Valley School
Community History Mapping Project

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Birth of a Town
• Railroad
• Ranching
• Mining
• Lasting Historical Sites
• Recreation & Tourism
• Land Use / Population Demographics

Maps

• Colorado Locator
• Gunnison Locator
• Birth of a Town
• Railroad
• Ranching
• Mining
• Lasting Historical Sites
• Recreation & Tourism
• Land Use / Population Demographics
  • City of Gunnison Land Use
  • Gunnison County Land Ownership
  • 1990 Density
  • 2000 Density

Acknowledgements

The Gunnison Valley School is an alternative high school program within the Gunnison Watershed RE1-J school district. Students in the GIS studies class chose to participate in the Community Atlas project sponsored by ESRI. Several community entities collaborated in order to assist the students in completing this project.

• Student project team: Jake Millison, Monique Otsuka, Kate Orr, Aja Downing, and Aaron Jackson.

• Advising teacher: Jonathan Houck.

• Gunnison County GIS technician: Shannon Sprott.

• Gunnison County GIS Intern: Buck Buchanan.

• CSU Extension Office/4-H Agent: Nadine Henry.

• Western State College Webmaster: Dave Abbott.

• Gunnison County Long Range Planner: Dave Michaelson.

• City of Gunnison Planning Department: Andy Ruggera.

• Historical Sites Data: Harley Tripp, Les Bushman.

• Ghost Town Data: Bill Stover.

• Gunnison Sch. Dist Tech support: Greg Allin.

• GPS units and software: RMOTE Grant.

• ArcView mapping software: ESRI grant thru 4-H
  

 

 

Contacts: Nadine Henry nhenry@coop.ext.colostate.edu

Shannon Sprott: ssprott@co.gunnison.co.us

Acknowledgments