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Clear Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 66 miles (106 km) long, [3] in north central Colorado in the United States. The creek flows through Clear Creek Canyon in the Rocky Mountains directly west of Denver, descending through a long gorge to emerge at the town of Golden, finally ending in the Colorado Eastern Plains where it joins the South Platte.
Location of Clear Creek County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clear Creek County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Clear Creek County, Colorado" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Clear Creek, ca. 1870 Crystalline gold specimen from the Dixie mine, Lamartine District, SW of Idaho Springs, Colorado.Size: 1.8 x 0.9 x 0.2 cm. [3] Clear Creek County was one of the original 17 counties created by the Colorado legislature on November 1, 1861, and is one of only two counties (along with Gilpin) to have persisted with its original boundaries unchanged.
Denver Mountain Parks logo. The Denver Mountain Parks system contains more than 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) of parklands in the mountains and foothills of Jefferson, Clear Creek, Douglas, and Grand counties in Colorado, west and south of Denver.
The historic Town of Empire is a Statutory Town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 345 at the 2020 United States Census, a +22.34% increase since the 2010 United States Census. [4] The town is a former mining settlement that flourished during the Colorado Silver Boom in the late 19th
The confluence of Clear Creek and Ralston Creek, the site of Colorado's first gold discovery is now in Arvada, Colorado. In 1858, several parties of gold seekers bound for the California Gold Rush panned small amounts of gold from various streams in the South Platte River Valley at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in then western Kansas ...
Georgetown is the territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 1,118 at the 2020 United States Census. [3] The former silver mining camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains was established in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.