La Junta, Colorado "La Junta"
La Junta .
La Junta, Colorado Official seal of La Junta, Colorado Location in Otero County and the State of Colorado Location in Otero County and the State of Colorado State State of Colorado Website City of La Junta, Colorado La Junta is the Municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded municipality of Otero County, Colorado, United States. The town/city population was 7,077 at the 2010 United States Census.
La Junta is positioned on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado east of Pueblo.
La Junta (Spanish for "the junction") was titled for the fact it rested at the intersection of the Santa Fe Trail and a pioneer road to Pueblo. The town advanced near Bent's Post, a fur trading post of the 19th century.
During World War II, La Junta had an Army Air Force Training Base outside town.
The airport, positioned 5 miles (8.0 km) north of La Junta, has 77 acres (31 ha) of tarmac and two runways which are still in use.
La Junta is positioned at 37 58 53 N 103 32 51 W (37.981333, -103.547540). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), all of it land.
This region of Colorado is often the warmest.
La Junta reached 107 F (42 C) with an overnight low of 87 F (31 C). However, the all-time record high for La Junta occurred on July 20, 1998 with a temperature of 113 F (45 C). Climate data for La Junta Municipal Airport (1981 2010) In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, an meaningful trading post along the Santa Fe Trail, is northeast of La Junta.
Purgatoire River track site, one of the biggest dinosaur track sites in North America, is south of La Junta.
See also: La Junta (Amtrak station) La Junta, until recently, had a barns yard for assembling freight trains for the climb over Raton Pass.
BNSF runs freight trains between Denver and Kansas/Texas via La Junta.
Bus service is provided daily eastward towards Wichita, Kansas and westward towards Pueblo, Colorado by Bee - Line Express (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines). Highway 50 travels through La Junta, approaching from Pueblo to the northwest and closing eastward towards Lamar and into Kansas.
Highway 350 begins at La Junta and travels southwest before reaching Trinidad.
State Highway 10 also begins at La Junta and travels west-southwest before reaching Walsenburg.
Main article: List of citizens from La Junta, Colorado Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in La Junta include novelists William Charles Anderson and Ken Kesey, baseball pitcher Tippy Martinez, and U.S.
The Terrence Malick motion picture Badlands (1973), starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek filmed scenes in and around La Junta.
Majestyk (1974), starring Charles Bronson, used a several exteriors and interiors in La Junta, including the hospital and police station, as well as the downtown gun battle and parts of the car chase.
In 1979, the first episodes of the CBS miniseries The Chisholms, starring Robert Preston, were filmed near La Junta.
Scenes for the award-winning 1978-79 TV mini-series, Centennial, were filmed at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, just east of La Junta.
La Junta.
Downtown La Junta with the postal service on back right.
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Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin.
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