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While other salt springs existed in the state, the Colorado Salt Works was the only site ever improved with the erection of a salt works. [2] It has been thought to be only the second manufacturing facility established in Colorado, [2] after a Denver-located cannon foundry. [3] It produced about 50 short tons (45,000 kg) of salt per month in ...
Cherry Creek Dam (National ID # CO01280) is a dam in Arapahoe County, Colorado, southeast of Denver.. The earthen dam was constructed between 1948 and 1950 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 141 feet (43 m) and a length of 14,300 feet (4,400 m) at its crest. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saguache County, [a] Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
The ranch includes the Colorado Salt Works, which is separately listed on the National Register, and is crossed by U.S. Highway 285 and by the 1879 railroad grade of the Denver South Park & Pacific. [3] The listed area includes 17 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site, on 128 acres (0.52 km 2). [1]
The reservoir inundated the abandoned roadbed of the Colorado and Southern Railway, a historic narrow gauge line active between 1874 and 1942. Until 1899, it was part of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad. The roadbed is still visible extending from the southern shore into the water just west of the inlet.
Ralston Dam (National ID # CO00205) is a dam in Jefferson County, Colorado. The earthen dam was constructed in 1937 by the Denver Board Of Water Commissioners, with a height of 204 feet (62 m), and a length of 1,170 feet (360 m) at its crest. [2] It impounds Ralston Creek for municipal water supply for the city of Denver. The dam is owned and ...
The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Inverness CDP was 2,226 at the United States Census 2020. [3] The Inverness Metropolitan Improvement District and the Inverness Water & Sanitation District provide services to the area, which lies in ZIP code 80112. [4]
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.