Nucla
Nucla is a statutory town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The population was 585 as of the 2020 census, down from 711 in 2010. Its name comes from the town founders' intent that it serve as a "nucleus" for the surrounding farms and mines, although it has since come to be associated with the growth of uranium mining in the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 702 residents
- Description: town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Nucla, CO” and “Nucla, Colorado”
- Postal code: 81424
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naturita.
Naturita
Town
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
Naturita is a statutory town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The population was 485 at the 2020 census, down from 546 in 2010. The post office in Naturita was opened on October 21, 1881, under the name "Chipeta"; the name was changed to Naturita September 15, 1882, and has used that name since then. Naturita is situated 3½ miles south of Nucla.
Nucla
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Montrose, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.26636° or 38° 15′ 59″ northLongitude
-108.5484° or 108° 32′ 54″ westPopulation
702Elevation
5,787 feet (1,764 metres)United Nations Location Code
US NUAOpen location code
85CH7F82+GJOpenStreetMap ID
way 33128856OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Nucla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نوكلا”
- Basque: “Nucla”
- Catalan: “Nucla”
- Cebuano: “Nucla”
- Chechen: “Нюкла”
- Chinese: “Nucla”
- Chinese: “纽克拉”
- Dutch: “Nucla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوكلا”
- French: “Nucla”
- German: “Nucla”
- Gilaki: “نوکلا (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “نوکلا”
- Hebrew: “נוקלה”
- Hungarian: “Nucla”
- Italian: “Nucla”
- Ladin: “Nucla”
- Mazanderani: “نوکلا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nucla”
- Navajo: “Dáʼákʼehtaʼ”
- Newari: “न्युक्ला, कोलोर्याडो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nucla”
- Norwegian: “Nucla”
- Persian: “نوکلا”
- Polish: “Nucla”
- Portuguese: “Nucla”
- Serbian: “Nucla”
- Serbian: “Нукла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nucla, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nucla”
- South Azerbaijani: “نوکلا، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “نوکلا”
- Spanish: “Nucla”
- Tatar: “Нюкла”
- Ukrainian: “Нюкла”
- Uzbek: “Nucla”
- Volapük: “Nucla”
- Welsh: “Nucla, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Nucla”
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