Sapinero, Colorado
Sapinero, a railroad town and commercial center for area miners and ranchers, was relocated prior to inundation by Blue Mesa Dam.
About this community
- River
- Gunnison River
- Established
- 1882
- Inundated
- 1965
The community that was displaced
- Displacement cost
- $20,108,813
- Property value
- $1,152,085
- Vocations
- farmer, fisherman, rancher
- Birthplaces
- local