{"id":884,"date":"2023-01-28T23:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=884"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:45:49","slug":"montrose-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/montrose-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrose County, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montrose County is a county in Colorado, United States, on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains along the Uncompahgre and San Miguel river valleys. It had a population of 42,679 at the 2020 census and covers 2,243 square miles (5,810 km2), of which 2,241 square miles are land and 1.9 square miles are water, centred near 38\u00b025\u2032N 108\u00b016\u2032W.<\/p>\n

Montrose is the county seat and only incorporated city; its postal code is 81401. The county has one city, three towns, one census-designated place, and several unincorporated communities. It sits in the Mountain time zone.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Montrose County<\/h2>\n

Montrose County has five incorporated or census-recognized places plus a scatter of unincorporated crossroads communities dating to the ranching and uranium-mining era. Olathe, Naturita, and Nucla are statutory towns; Redvale is a census-designated place; the rest are unincorporated.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Montrose<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n20,291<\/td>\n81401 \/ 81403<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Olathe<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,019<\/td>\n81425<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nucla<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n585<\/td>\n81424<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Naturita<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n485<\/td>\n81422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Redvale<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n81431<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bedrock<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n81411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paradox<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n81429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uravan<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cimarron<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pinon<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Uravan was a company town built to process uranium and vanadium ore; the U.S. government demolished and buried the entire site as a Superfund cleanup in the 1990s after decades of milling left it contaminated, and no population remains there today. Cedar Creek, Coventry, East Vancorum, Fairview, Frost, Hoovers Corner, Houser Cow Camp, Lujane, Maher, Mountain View, Pea Green Corner, Roe, Uncompahgre, Vancorum, Vernal, and West Vancorum are historic ranch-country place names or rural post office sites from the old county gazetteer; several no longer have any year-round residents and are omitted from the table above for lack of a verifiable current population or ZIP.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n