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The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, formerly and historically the Cresson Mine, is an active gold mine located near the town of Victor, in the Cripple Creek mining district in the US state of Colorado. The richest gold mine in Colorado history, [ 1] it is the only remaining significant producer of gold in the state, and produced 322,000 troy ...
FIPS code. 08-22035. GNIS feature ID. 2410374 [ 3] Website. www .durangogov .org. Durango is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. [ 1] The city population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States Census. [ 5] Durango is the home of Fort Lewis College .
Designated NHL. July 4, 1961. The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally-designated National Historic Landmark and was also ...
Main Avenue Historic District in Durango, Colorado is a 34-acre (14 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.. According to its 1980 NRHP nomination, it was deemed significant "because it represents the essence and core of both the evolution and development of business and commerce in the most important town in southwestern Colorado."
1968 view of the Durango Smelter site taken across the Animas River from the D&RGW Railroad yard (Now the site of US Highway 160/550) The San Juan and New York Smelting Company, (later on merged into the American Smelting & Refining Company, but commonly referred to as the "Durango Smelter") was a mineral smelter located below Smelter Mountain right in front of Durango, Colorado, operating ...
State City Elevation Population Average Yearly Temp Colorado Fairplay: 9,953 ft (3,034 m) 787 35.0 °F (1.7 °C) Utah Brian Head: 9,800 ft (2,987 m) 83
Website. Official website. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. [ 5] The park was originally designated Great Sand ...
Fort Lewis College is a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado.Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned Indian boarding school turned state public school, FLC follows a 1911 mandate to give qualified Native Americans a tuition-free education and awards approximately 16% of the baccalaureate degrees earned by Native American students in the nation.