Orchard Mesa

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Orchard Mesa

Total population

6,945

Elevation4649 m

Land area10.05 km²

Weather54°F · Partly Cloudy

Coordinates39.04°, -108.52°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Orchard Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Orchard Mesa CDP was 6,688 at the 2020 census. The Grand Junction post office serves the area.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Orchard Mesa, CO from NOAA NWS API.

Notable people from here

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Rebecca Ward

American fencer

Marilyn Ferguson

American writer (1938-2008)

Ben Hoffman

American triathlete

Elmo Smith

American politician (1909-1968)

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Natalie Bieser

American artist, watercolorist (b. 1948)

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Roger Dashen

American physicist

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John E. Walsh

American university teacher, statistician (1919-1972)

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Bill Musgrave

American football player and coach (born 1967)

Brian Matusz

American baseball player (1987–2025)

Owen Aspinall

Governor of American Samoa (1927-1997)

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Brandon Swartzendruber

American soccer player

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Chuck Hull

American inventor

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Dick Nourse

American journalist

Jane E. Norton

American politician

Michael Strobl

former United States Marine Corps officer

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Sven Erik Holmes

American judge

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Colorado

• Clifton
  4.3 mi away · pop. 19,518
• Fruitvale
  4.5 mi away · pop. 8,019
• Redlands
  7.8 mi away · pop. 8,868
• Palisade
  10.1 mi away
• Fruita
  13.8 mi away · pop. 13,691
• De Beque
  25.4 mi away
• Delta
  30.3 mi away · pop. 9,421
• Orchard City
  33.5 mi away · pop. 3,221
• Cedaredge
  33.6 mi away · pop. 2,398
• Parachute
  37.9 mi away
• Olathe
  41.5 mi away · pop. 1,793
• Lazear
  43.7 mi away · pop. 196

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Orchard Mesa

The cost of producing apples in western Colorado

S. M. Thomson · 1917

Search results from Open Library.