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Breckenridge is the Home Rule Town that is the county seat and most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States. [1] [7] The town population was 5,078 at the 2020 United States Census. [5] Breckenridge is the principal town of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town also has many part-time residents, as ...
Summit County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,055. [1] The county seat and largest town is Breckenridge. [2] Summit County comprises the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. [3] [4]
The town is part of Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the census [ 7 ] of 2000, there were 685 people, 268 households, and 151 families residing in the town. The population density was 314.0 inhabitants per square mile (121.2/km 2 ).
Frisco is a home rule municipality located in Summit County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,913 at the 2020 census. [5] Frisco is a part of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is a popular town among skiers from around the world.
The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver , the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities.
2008-12-31 19:25 Tillman 720×720× (268591 bytes) Breckenridge and Copper Mountain Ski Slopes, Colorado Astronaut photograph ISS018-E-5353 was acquired on October 24, 2008, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the
The town was named for Judge Marshall Silverthorn who served as the judge of the miners' court in Breckenridge. The judge first came to town as a prospector and claimed a section of the Blue River in 1881. After patenting his claim in April 1882, he was disappointed to find the gold to be sparse and the claim a poor bet.
The Blue River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 65 miles (105 km) long, [5] in the U.S. state of Colorado. It rises in southern Summit County, on the western side of the continental divide in the Ten Mile Range, near Quandary Peak. It flows northwards past Blue River and Breckenridge, then through the Dillon Reservoir near ...