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Buckskin Joe is an extinct gold mining town located in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded in 1860 as Laurette in what was then the Kansas Territory. The Territory of Colorado was created on February 28, 1861, and the Laurette post office opened on November 14, 1861. Laurette was elected the Park County seat on January 7 ...
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States. This is a list of some notable ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. A ghost town is a former community that now has no year-round residents or less than 1% of its peak population. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist.
Fairplay is a statutory town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. [1][7] The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census. [4] Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of 9,953 feet (3,034 m). The town is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the State of ...
Saint Elmo, Colorado. Saint Elmo is a ghost town in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. [2] Founded in 1880, Saint Elmo lies in the heart of the Sawatch Range, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buena Vista and sits at an elevation of 9,961 feet (3,036 m). Nearly 2,000 people settled in this town when mining for gold and silver started.
South Park is a grassland flat within the basin formed by the Rocky Mountains ' Mosquito and Park Mountain Ranges [1] within central Colorado. This high valley ranges in elevation from approximately 9,000 to 10,000 ft (3,000 m). It encompasses approximately 1,000 square miles (2,590 km 2 or 640,000 acres) around the headwaters of the South ...
Garo in 2017. The now ghost town is about five miles (8.0 km) north of Hartsel and seven miles (11 km) south of Fairplay along Colorado Highway 9, at an elevation of 9,197 feet (2,803 m). The community was named after its founder, the area ranchers Marie Guiraud, and for her late husband, Louis Adolfe Guiraud, both natives of France.
Elevation. 9,200 ft (2,800 m) Antero Junction is an extinct town located in Park County, Colorado, United States. The townsite is located at 38.9233°N 105.9653°W at an elevation of 9,187 feet (2,800 meters). [ 1] Antero Junction is located at the junction of U.S. Route 285 and U.S. Route 24. [ 2][ 3]
Topo map. USGS Boreas Pass. Boreas Pass. Colorado. Boreas Pass (elevation 11,481 ft (3,499 m)) is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. The pass is located on the continental divide, at the crest of the Front Range along the border between Park (south) and Summit counties.