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Location of Douglas County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Douglas County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Colorado, United States.
The United States created the free Territory of Colorado in 1861 following the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. [13] The Territory fought for the Union during the American Civil War [14] despite many of its founders being natives of slave states or territories. [15]
Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 54 fourteeners, mountains more than 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above sea level. The massif rises over 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. It is composed of a characteristic pink granite called Pikes Peak granite.
The outstanding geologic features of the park, including Steamboat Rock, the Three Graces, and Balanced Rock, are the ancient sedimentary beds of deep-red, pink and white sandstones, conglomerates and limestone that were deposited horizontally, but have now been tilted vertically and faulted into "fins" by the immense mountain building forces caused by the uplift of the Rocky Mountains and the ...
Pikes Peak Regional Hospital is the local hospital. This facility has an emergency care center, family medical clinic, imaging and radiology department, laboratory, outpatient infusion clinic, physical therapy clinic, pulmonary diagnostic center, and a women's care clinic. [27]
The lab has been maintained by USARIEM since 1969 and is a building of 2,267 sq ft (210.6 m 2). floor space divided into a kitchen and dining/day room, common area bathroom and shower, and common area sleeping quarters accommodating up to 16 research volunteers, a wet laboratory, a research area, and a mechanical room housing steel storage ...
The Pike National Forest is located in the Front Range of Colorado, United States, west of Colorado Springs including Pikes Peak. The forest encompasses 1,106,604 acres (4,478 km 2) within Clear Creek, Teller, Park, Jefferson, Douglas and El Paso counties. The major rivers draining the forest are the South Platte and Fountain Creek.
Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,171. [1] The county seat is Murfreesboro. [2] Pike County is Arkansas's 25th county, formed on November 1, 1833, and named for Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, the explorer for whom Pikes Peak is named.