Pleasant View is an unincorporated town

Unincorporated area

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 and a U.S. Post Office

United States Postal Service

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 located in Montezuma County

Montezuma County, Colorado

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, Colorado

Colorado

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, United States

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. The Pleasant View Post Office has the ZIP Code

ZIP Code

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 81331.

Pleasant View should not be confused with the CDP

Census-designated place

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 in Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Colorado

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, also known as Pleasant View

West Pleasant View, Colorado

West Pleasant View is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 3,932 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Pleasant View is located at ....

.

Geography

Pleasant View is located at 37°35′18"N 108°45′57"W (37.588391,-108.765850).

History

Several historic places near or in Pleasant View are on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties

Colorado State Register of Historic Properties

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 or the National Register of Historic Places

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:

• James A. Lancaster Site, also known as the Clawson Ruin, is a Ancient pueblo archaeological site on the National Register of Historic Places
• Pigge Site, located near Lowry Ruin, contains several pueblo ruins and a great kiva and is also on the National Register.
• Puzzle House, is a pueblo settlement occupied three times, first about AD 650 and two occupations between AD 1075-1225. The site is on the state register.

See also

• Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
  Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
  Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado, and is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior...
  
  
• Colorado municipalities
  Colorado municipalities
  The U.S. state of Colorado currently has 271 active incorporated municipalities, including 196 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments.-Municipal government:...
  
  
• Hovenweep National Monument
  Hovenweep National Monument
  Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, located between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain...
  
  
• Lowry Ruin National Historic Landmark
• Old Spanish National Historic Trail