About Us: The Uncompahgre Reservation was opened to settlers in the fall of 1881. George A. Crawford, founder of Grand Junction, secured a townsite from W. C. Stephens at the confluence of the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers, and the Uncompahgre Town and Improvement Company (later Delta) was established. In 1883, the area was partitioned off from Gunnison County and Delta County was created...