Talk:Ouray, Colorado

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Pronunciation

For a discussion of the pronunciation of “Ouray” please help me at Talk:Ouray

Thanks WikiDon 21:46, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ice climbing

NYT has pics on pp. A1 & B16, & mentions Ouray Ice Park being not in "Box Canyon" but "Uncampahgre Gorge" w/75-100 ft walls. Are these two names for the same feature, or two neighboring land features?
--Jerzy•t 05:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

These are two separate locations. Both the Uncompahgre River and Canyon Creek flow through a box cayon just before their confluence. "Box Canyon" typically refrers to the canyon on Canyon Creek. Ice climbing is done in the smaller more accessible box canyon of the Uncompahgre Gorge. DebSpencer 00:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics

Isn't it silly to use hundreds of a per cent to report the demographics of a city of 813 people? 0.12% is one person. Why not write that? 129.178.88.76 (talk) 11:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

C. W. McCall (Bill Fries) as mayor

There seems to be some confusion about C. W. McCall's (William Fries') terms as mayor of Ouray. This article said in one place that he had served three terms as mayor, but a few paragraphs later said he had been a two term mayor. The Wikipedia page for C. W. McCall said he had served three terms, but the website cw-mccall.com says two terms making it an even split. A fairly exhaustive effort to find an authoritative source one way or the other was unsuccessful as all the news articles I could find stated only that he served for six years. I was also unsuccessful in attempting to locate firm information regarding this question from the city of Ouray website. I tried yet another angle and attempted to determine what the length of a mayoral term was in Ouray in the late 80's, and early 90s. This was also a dud. The current mayor's term is indicated by the Ouray city website as running from 2008 to 2010 but it doesn't say if that means Foomonth Xday, 2008 to Foomonth Xday, 2010 (a two year term) or if it includes all of 2008, 2009, and 2010 (a three year term.) If the first is the case, Fries served three terms, if the second, then he served two. Even that, however, assumes that the mayor's term is the same now as it was then and I could not verify that either. Therefore, as I could not resolve the question of how many terms, but could verify how many years he served, I changed the references in both this article and the C. W. McCall article to say six years and included a reference to that effect. OlenWhitaker • ^{talk to me} or _don't • ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ 18:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC) 18:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

City or town?

Both are used in the article and the category is "Cities in Colorado", but population of 1,000 can hardly be called a city. So I believe that it should be changed to town. אביהו (talk) 15:52, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]