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Uravan Townsite

Uravan, CO

The former uranium and vanadium company town was demolished and remediated after mining contamination, leaving little of the settlement itself. Interpretive context and the empty townsite make it a particularly eerie example of a deliberately erased community.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: colorado.com/articles/colorado-ghost-towns

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