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    The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. The town is...
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    Project Rulison (category 1969 in Colorado)
    about 8 miles (13 km) SE of the town of Grand Valley, Colorado (now named Parachute, Colorado) in Garfield County. The location of "Surface Ground Zero"...
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    the south side of the Colorado River, across from the older town of Parachute. The two communities together are known as "Parachute-Battlement Mesa". The...
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  • may also refer to: Parachute, Colorado, United States Parachute (film), a 2023 American drama film directed by Brittany Snow Parachute (video game), an...
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    of Colorado Mesa University and St. Mary's Hospital as leading employers in these fields. Vast oil shale reserves were known to exist near Parachute, Colorado...
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  • Valley (Colorado-Utah), along the Colorado River Grand Valley AVA, Colorado wine region Grand Valley, Colorado, town now named Parachute, Colorado Grand...
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    Harvey Logan (category Deaths by firearm in Colorado)
    down by a posse outside of Parachute, Colorado. Curry and two others had robbed a Denver and Rio Grande train outside Parachute. As they escaped, they stole...
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    Colorado, United States. It is most notable for being the location of the Project Rulison nuclear test on September 10, 1969. The town of Parachute,...
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    Springs has been the seat of Archuleta County, Colorado since the county was created on April 14, 1885. Parachute was originally incorporated on April 1, 1908...
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  • Airport Parachute, Colorado, US 1,800 549 5,331 MT71 Edsall Field Bozeman, Montana, US 1,800 549 4,659 34CD Elk Park Ranch Airport Allenspark, Colorado, US...
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  • of John Lyons' Perfect Horse magazine. He lives and works out of Parachute, Colorado. Lyons' approach of establishing a partnership between horse and...
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  • Willard Libby (category People from Grand Junction, Colorado)
    California's air pollution standards. Willard Frank Libby was born in Parachute, Colorado, on December 17, 1908, the son of farmers Ora Edward Libby and his...
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    School District 16, serving Parachute and Battlement Mesa The county is also home to private schools, including Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale...
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    Western Colorado. The Denver Botanic Gardens has the Parachute penstemon on display with other native plants of the Roan Plateau. The name Parachute comes...
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  • owned a real estate company in Grand Junction, Colorado, and VJ's Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, Colorado, where he lived with his son, Scott. He was the...
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    the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants" 1960 Willard F. Libby Parachute, Colorado "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology...
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    Juan River). The Colorado River flows through Glenwood Canyon, and then through an arid valley made up of desert from Rifle to Parachute, through the desert...
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  • portal Colorado portal Bibliography of Colorado Geography of Colorado History of Colorado Index of Colorado-related articles List of Colorado-related...
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  • Parachute Creek is a 14.7-mile-long (23.7 km) tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado. The confluence with the Colorado is just south...
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  • gas. Parachute, Colorado 39°24′19″N 107°56′55″W / 39.40535°N 107.94857°W / 39.40535; -107.94857 (Parachute, Colorado) A site near Rifle, Colorado was...
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    The MC-6 Parachute is a Maneuverable Canopy (MC) static line-deployed personnel parachute of the United States Armed Forces. Developed by United States...
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    active incorporated municipalities of the US State of Colorado by geographic elevation. Colorado has five municipalities above 10,000 feet (3,048 m) elevation...
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    Wasson-McKay Place (category National Register of Historic Places in Garfield County, Colorado)
    The Wasson-McKay Place, at 259 Cardinal Way in Parachute, Colorado, was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010...
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  • KDBN (category Radio stations in Colorado)
    is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Parachute, Colorado. The station is owned by KSUN Community Radio Corporation. KSUN community...
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    land safely while the Cirrus SR22 deployed its CAPS system and safely parachuted to the ground. All three occupants on board both aircraft survived uninjured...
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    This is a partial list of wildfires in the U.S. State of Colorado which have occurred periodically throughout its recorded history. One of the most significant...
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    dropped from heights with the benefit of parachutes. Early on, animals were used as test subjects for parachutes and as entertainment. Following the development...
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    Sunday", Exxon canceled its US$5 billion Colony Shale Oil Project near Parachute, Colorado, because of low oil prices and increased expenses, laying off more...
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  • defunct low-power radio station (101.1 FM) formerly licensed to serve Parachute, Colorado, United States the ICAO code for San Luis Obispo County Regional...
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  • Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (category Video games set in Colorado)
    back together, under the leadership of Kid Curry. He tracks them to Parachute, Colorado, eliminating most of them before confronting Curry, who taunts him...
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