Cisco (Utah)

38.97 - 109.32055555556Koordinaten: 38 ° 58 ' 12 " N, 109 ° 19' 14 " W

Cisco is a ghost town in Grand County in the U.S. state of Utah.

Location

The city is located about 25 kilometers west of the border state of Colorado near the Utah State Route 128 between Interstate 70 and the valley of the Colorado River. The height of the place is given as 4352 ft. (1326 meters). Through the village runs the County Highway 175 on which there are branching southwards County Highways 176 and 177 at Fish Ford or Cisco Landing access to the Colorado River, which are often used by rafters, which have passed through the Westwater Canyon.

History

Unlike many other ghost towns in the western United States were no mining activities in the founding of Cisco at the center. Rather, the place was just founded as a supply point in the course of the installation of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad after 1880. Due to its location, the place became in the years to come to a local center of the ranchers around, temporarily 100,000 sheep were shorn in here whose wool was shipped with the help of the railway. 1924 were found in the area of oil and natural gas, but could this discovery the decline of the city, which had begun with the replacement of the steam locomotive, only delay. The importance of the village in 1963 was still large enough to get assigned the ZIP code 84515 by the United States Postal Service. The construction of Interstate 70 and the associated relocation of formerly the village by crossing Highways 6 and 50 meant that Cisco was a ghost town. In 2005, new oil and gas reserves have been discovered, but this did not lead to new settlers.

Tourism

Cisco is located on one of the American main tourist routes from Grand Junction / Colorado National Monument to Moab, Utah.

The easy accessibility has meant that many buildings were destroyed by vandalism. Some buildings seem at least used even temporarily, the local Cisco Landing Store is temporarily in use. The California Zephyr makes use of the now operated by the Union Pacific Railroad rail line, but without scheduled stop in Cisco, along with freight trains of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad are traveling.

Representation in the media

Johnny Cash wrote the song Cisco Clifton's Fillin Station about Harry Ballard Harris, a resident of Cisco.

Parts of the films Vanishing Point San Francisco ( 1971), Thelma and Louise (1991) and Do not come knocking (2005) were filmed in California and the surrounding area.

• Cisco (Utah )

Former roadhouse in Cisco

Cisco Landing Store