Georgetown, Colorado Town of Georgetown, Colorado Location in Clear Creek County and the state of Colorado Location in Clear Creek County and the state of Colorado State Colorado County Clear Creek County Seat Only remaining Colorado Territorial Charter Municipality The historic Town of Georgetown is the Territorial Charter Municipality that is the governmental center of county of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The former silver quarrying camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains was established in 1859 amid the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
The federally designated Georgetown-Silver Plume Historic District comprises Georgetown, the neighboring town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two towns.
The town populace was 1,034 at the 2010 census. The Georgetown Post Office has the ZIP code 80444. The town sits at an altitude of 8,530 feet (2,600 m) above sea level, nestled in the mountain peaks near the upper end of the valley of Clear Creek in the mountain peaks west of Denver along Interstate 70.
Although a small town today, the town was a historic center of the quarrying industry in Colorado amid the late 19th century, earning the nickname the "Silver Queen of Colorado".
It has evolved into a lively historical summer tourist center today with many preserved structures from the heyday of the Colorado Silver Boom.
The town stretches roughly north-south along Clear Creek, hemmed in by the mountain peaks, with the historic downtown positioned at the southern (upper) end and undivided evolution positioned at the northern (lower) end of town.
Although established during the gold rush, the town interval quickly following the discernment of silver on September 14, 1864, by James Huff at a site approximately 8 miles (13 km) up the canyon in the Argentine Pass area.
In the following years, thousands of mines were dug in the mountain peaks encircling the town and the town quickly interval into a center for prospectors and mine workers in the encircling mountain peaks.
Located in the valley floor, the town itself was not a quarrying camp but a center of commerce and entertainment for miners in the encircling mountain peaks.
Georgetown is the only Colorado municipality that still operates under a charter from the Territory of Colorado.
The building of the narrow gauge Colorado Central Railroad up the canyon from Golden in the 1870s further increased the central position of the town.
Although most of the barns was later removed, a portion remained between the town and Silver Plume and is directed today as a tourist barns called the Georgetown Loop.
The town experienced its greatest expansion and prosperity amid the Colorado silver boom of the 1880s when it rivaled Leadville to the west as the quarrying capital of Colorado.
At one time, before the collapse of the silver boom in 1893, the town populace exceeded 10,000, and a boss arose briefly among small-town citizens to move the state capital there from Denver.
The frontier gambler, Poker Alice, lived for a time in Georgetown and in a several other Colorado communities where she was considered an expert player and dealer. Following the collapse of the Silver Boom, the town populace dwindled.
In the 1950s the town began to experience a small renaissance as an apres-ski watering hole for the thousands of skiers who passed through the town on their way down from the mountain peaks at the ski areas near Loveland Pass and Guanella Pass.
By the late 1960s, the establishment of a exhibition in one of the historic hotels had made the town a prominent summer tourist destination where visitors could relive the experience of walking among structures from the quarrying boom.
The town was also used in the 1998 film Phantoms which encompassed the historic Hotel de Paris, as well as the colonial-style postal service.
Georgetown is positioned in the valley of Clear Creek.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Georgetown has a total region of 1.2 square miles (3.0 km2), of which 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 8.71%, is water. Climate data for Georgetown, Colorado (1981 2010) In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 33.9% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
State of Colorado Colorado metros/cities and suburbs Clear Creek County, Colorado Colorado urbane areas North Central Colorado Urban Area Colorado Silver Boom State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs.
"Colorado Municipal Incorporations".
State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Georgetown town, Colorado".
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