Valdez
Valdez is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. From 1907 to 1960, Valdez served as a company town for Colorado Fuel & Iron and its Frederick coal mine, the company's most productive and second largest.- Type: Hamlet with 47 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Colorado, USA
- Also known as: “Valdez, CO”, “Valdez, Colorado”, “Valdez, Las Animas County, Colorado”, and “Valdez, USA”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cokedale.
Cokedale
Town
Photo: Nationalparks, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Cokedale is a statutory town located in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 127 at the 2020 United States census. Cokedale is situated 4½ miles east of Valdez.
Valdez
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Las Animas, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.12224° or 37° 7′ 20″ northLongitude
-104.70194° or 104° 42′ 7″ westPopulation
47Elevation
6,490 feet (1,978 metres)Open location code
859Q47CX+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 151421330OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5442740Wikidata ID
Q5945617
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Ukrainian—“Valdez” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Вальдес”
- Chinese: “瓦爾迪茲”
- Dutch: “Valdez”
- French: “Valdez”
- German: “Valdez”
- Gilaki: “والدز (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “والدز”
- Irish: “Valdez”
- Italian: “Valdez”
- Japanese: “ヴァルディーズ (コロラド州)”
- Japanese: “ヴァルディーズ”
- Ladin: “Valdez”
- Polish: “Valdez”
- Portuguese: “Valdez”
- Serbian: “Валдиз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valdez, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valdez”
- South Azerbaijani: “والدز، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “والدز”
- Spanish: “Valdez”
- Swedish: “Valdez, Colorado”
- Swedish: “Valdez”
- Tatar: “Вальдес”
- Turkish: “Valdez, Colorado”
- Turkish: “Valdez”
- Ukrainian: “Вальдес”
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