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According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Meeker has a warm-summer humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Meeker was 103 °F (39.4 °C) on July 11, 1900, while the coldest temperature recorded was −43 °F (−41.7 °C) on January 7, 1913, and January 12, 1963. [13]
Rio Blanco County (Spanish: Condado del Río Blanco) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,529. [2] The county seat is Meeker. [3] The name of the county is the Spanish name for the White River which runs through it.
State Highway 64 (SH 64) is a 74-mile-long (119 km) two-lane state highway connecting the towns of Dinosaur and Meeker in the western part of the U.S. state of Colorado.It is located in both Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. [2]
The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, [2] curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. [3]
The settlement was formerly incorporated in 1888 by brothers Reuben and Ambrose Oldman, in hope that a railroad would come through the area along White River. Ambrose was involved in oil speculation in the area and ran a store on Piceance Creek until 1895, when he moved to Meeker. [3] [4] There was a schoolhouse in 1902. [5]
Mount Meeker is a high mountain summit of the Twin Peaks Massif in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 13,916-foot (4,242 m) thirteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) west by north (bearing 285°) of the community of Allenspark in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
English: Meeker Historic District, Meeker, Colorado. Main Street between 5th and 6th Streets. Main Street between 5th and 6th Streets. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.