Clifton
Clifton is an unincorporated community, a census-designated place, and a post office in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 20,400 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Mesa County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Clifton, CO” and “Clifton, Colorado”
- Postal code: 81520
- Neighbors: Grand Junction
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clifton Community Center and Church and Central High School.
Clifton Community Center and Church
Church
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.
The Clifton Community Center and Church is a historic church in Mesa County, Colorado. It is located at the corner of F and Main Street in Clifton, Colorado, a town approximately five miles east of Grand Junction, Colorado.
Central High School
School
Central High School is a public secondary school for grades 9-12 located in Grand Junction, Colorado. Its enrollment is 1,598, and it is operated by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Cross Orchards Historic Site
Museum
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is part of the Museums of Western Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fruitvale.
Fruitvale
Village
Fruitvale is a census-designated place in and governed by Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Fruitvale is situated 2½ miles west of Clifton.
Clifton
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Mesa, Northwestern Colorado, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.0919° or 39° 5′ 31″ northLongitude
-108.449° or 108° 26′ 56″ westPopulation
20,400Elevation
4,724 feet (1,440 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CF3Open location code
85FH3HR2+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 151842137OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Clifton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Clifton”
- Catalan: “Clifton”
- Cebuano: “Clifton”
- Chechen: “Клифтон”
- Chinese: “Clifton”
- Chinese: “克利夫頓”
- Chinese: “克利夫顿”
- Chinese: “克里夫頓”
- Dutch: “Clifton”
- French: “Clifton”
- German: “Clifton (Colorado)”
- German: “Clifton”
- Gilaki: “کلیفتن (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “کلیفتن”
- Irish: “Clifton”
- Italian: “Clifton”
- Japanese: “クリフトン”
- Japanese: “フォート・シル”
- Kazakh: “Клифтон”
- Kirghiz: “Клифтон”
- Ladin: “Clifton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Clifton”
- Navajo: “Tsé Ńtʼiʼí”
- Newari: “क्लिफटन, कोलोर्याडो”
- Persian: “کلیفتون، کلرادو”
- Persian: “کلیفتون”
- Polish: “Clifton”
- Portuguese: “Clifton”
- Russian: “Клифтон”
- Serbian: “Клифтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clifton, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clifton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلیفتون، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلیفتون”
- Spanish: “Clifton (Colorado)”
- Spanish: “Clifton”
- Swedish: “Clifton, Colorado”
- Swedish: “Clifton”
- Tatar: “Клифтон”
- Ukrainian: “Кліфтон”
- Volapük: “Clifton (CO)”
- Volapük: “Clifton, CO”
- Volapük: “Clifton, Colorado”
- Volapük: “Clifton”
- Welsh: “Clifton, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Clifton”
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