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Slick Rock, Colorado

unincorporated community in Colorado, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ107803513 ↗
Source-derived summary

Slick Rock is an unincorporated community located in western San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Slick Rock sits next to the Dolores River and is named for the surrounding sandstone formations.

History

Slick Rock was originally known as Gladel. The Gladel post office opened in 1922, but closed in 1929. The Slick Rock post office opened in 1941, but has since closed. Slick Rock addresses are now served by the Egnar post office with the ZIP code 81325.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 1929, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Slick, Rock and Colorado can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as unincorporated community in Colorado, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107803513. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1929 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “Slick Rock, Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.