Silverton, Colorado Town of Silverton, Colorado Location in San Juan County and the state of Colorado Location in San Juan County and the state of Colorado State State of Colorado Website Town of Silverton The town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the governmental center of county of, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Silverton is a former silver quarrying camp, most or all of which is now encompassed in a federally designated National Historic Landmark District, the Silverton Historic District.
Silverton is linked to Durango by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a National Historic Landmark.
Silverton no longer has active mining, but subsists by tourism, maintenance of US 550 (which links Montrose with Durango via Silverton), mine pollution remediation, and retirees.
In 2002 an extreme ski mountain, Silverton Mountain, opened near the town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all of it land.
Silverton is one of the highest suburbs in the United States, at 9,318 feet (2,836 m) above sea level.
Silverton has an alpine subarctic climate (Koppen climate classification Dfc) with very cold, snowy winters and cool to warm summers with adequate rain year-round.
Climate data for 1906-2005 Silverton, Colorado.
Silverton Historic District National Register of Historic Places National Historic Landmark District Grand Imperial Hotel, Silverton Historic District Silverton, Colorado is positioned in Colorado Silverton, Colorado Location Silverton, Colorado Charles Baker's group of prospectors found traces of placer gold in the San Juan Mountains in 1860 at Eureka, Colorado.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 20.7% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 39.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Gooch, retired historian of 19th century Europe, former school board member, town/city council member, and mayor pro tempore of Silverton Arthur Pink, evangelical pastor and writer, lived in Silverton briefly In the novel The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson, the chief setting is in Silverton.
Mc - Call recorded "The Silverton," about the Silverton and Durango Railroad, on his 1975 album Black Bear Road.
Silverton was the setting for some of Shaun White's 2010 Olympic training.
2009 on the backside of Silverton Mountain and allowed the boarder to perfect some of his gold medal winning moves far from prying eyes.
The 2003 Microsoft video game Freelancer features a Colorado solar fitness including the 'Silverton' asteroid field.
Silverton town/city hall Downtown Silverton Fred Wolfe Memorial Carriage House and the Silverton Clinic Silverton and Sultan Mountain in 1901 Ice Lake in the Ice Lake Basin of the Weminuche Wilderness, near Silverton Golden Horn in the Weminuche Wilderness/San Juan National Forest outside of Silverton.
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad a b "Active Colorado Municipalities".
State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs.
"Colorado County Seats".
State of Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment.
"Colorado Municipal Incorporations".
State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives.
"Annual Estimates of the Population for All Incorporated Places: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005" (CSV). Population Division.
National Register of Historic Places.
"Silverton Historic District".
Voynick, S.M., 1992, Colorado Gold, Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, ISBN 0878 - 424555 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Ex-spy feels at home in mountain town | Wyoming News | trib.com Retrieved 2016-11-14.
Silverton, Colorado Silverton Chamber of Commerce Website CDOT map of the Town of Silverton Silverton Town Government Website Silverton history and photos at Western Mining History Silverton Historic District photos and documentation from Historic American Buildings Survey Silverton, Colorado photograph by Ansel Adams in 1951 The Silverton Branch of the D&RGW Silverton Standard Newspaper Website Municipalities and communities of San Juan County, Colorado, United States National Register of Historic Places State of Colorado
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Towns in San Juan County, Colorado - County seats in Colorado - Mining communities in Colorado - San Juan Mountains (Colorado)Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado - National Register of Historic Places in San Juan County, Colorado - National Historic Landmarks in Colorado - Towns in Colorado
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