Parachute
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town in Garfield County, Colorado, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Garfield County
- Incorporated
- 1908-04-01, as the Town of Grand Valley
- Type
- Home rule municipality
- Total
- 1.87 sq mi (4.85 km )
- Land
- 1.81 sq mi (4.68 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km )
- Elevation
- 5,089 ft (1,551 m)
- Density
- 769/sq mi (297/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 ( MDT )
- Zip codes
- 81635, 81636 ( PO Box )
- Fips code
- 08-57400
- Website
- www .parachutecolorado .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census.
The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parachute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.