Tag: Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board
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Colorado’s Mount Evans name change hits mysterious snag in final hour
“I’m shocked. To me everything was in order.”
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U.S. Geological Survey task force releases replacements for ‘squaw’-named features
A task force commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to come up with replacements for geographic features with the word “squaw” in their names has released its proposed list. Colorado has 28 features, including four that cross state boundaries with Oklahoma and Utah, with “squaw” in the name. Haaland declared the word “squaw” derogatory in…
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Colorado agency seeks public comment on replacement names for ‘squaw’ features
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty-eight Colorado geographic features with the word “squaw” in their names are poised to bear new titles. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, the state board that reviews suggested name changes, will soon begin soliciting public input on replacement names for those features, with an…
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Calkins family opposes change for Longmont’s Union Reservoir
The family a Weld County lake is named after is weighing in against a proposed change that the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board has been wrestling with for the past two months. Originally known as Calkins Lake, seven miles west of I-25 near Longmont, the body of water is more commonly known as Union Reservoir. That’s…