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Colorado naming board approves recommendation to name Montezuma County valley in USBGN case 5961
Summary
At its June meeting the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board voted to recommend USBGN case 5961, advancing a proponent-submitted commemorative name for an unnamed valley in Montezuma County; the board amended the proponent's requested punctuation to conform with U.S. Board on Geographic Names policy and recorded two abstentions.
The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board voted to recommend USBGN case 5961, to make official a commemorative name for an unnamed valley in Montezuma County.
The proposal submitted by a proponent with the surname Bain sought to recognize local use of a commemorative name for a roughly 4.2-mile valley that trends west-southwest to join Sandstone Canyon on Bureau of Land Management-managed land. The board discussed historical references showing the Bain family…
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