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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.
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.
UTC-6 (MDT) ZIP codes. 81432 [1] GNIS feature ID. 187310 [2] Red Mountain Town is a silver mining ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado, United States, south of Ouray along the "Million Dollar Highway" (U.S. Route 550).
2022 →. The 2021 Colorado wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Colorado. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, as of July 1, 2021, at least 32,860 acres (13,300 ha) of land had burned in at least 337 wildland fires across the state. [3][4] Hundreds of homes were burned, and the cities ...
The Marshall Fire was a destructive wildfire and urban conflagration that started on December 30, 2021, shortly after 11:00 a.m. MST, [3] as a grass fire in Boulder County, Colorado. [4] The fire killed two people and destroyed more than 991 structures to become the most destructive fire in Colorado history . [ 5 ]
Keota, Colorado. Keota is a mostly abandoned town located on the prairie in the Pawnee National Grasslands in Weld County in the U.S. state of Colorado. Keota's elevation is 4,964 ft (1,513 m). [ 1 ] Keota is located approximately 50 miles east of Fort Collins on County Road 103.
The fire, Detroit Fire Department James Harris said, broke out on the city’s west side at about 6:30 p.m. at a Detroit Mulch Co., at 14300 Prairie.
Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre –part of the Colorado Coalfield War –in 1914. The town site is located at the entrance to a canyon in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It is located along the western side of Interstate 25 approximately 12 miles (19 ...