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Bakerville, Colorado

Coordinates: 39°41′29″N 105°48′18″W / 39.6914°N 105.8050°W / 39.6914; -105.8050
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Bakerville, Colorado
Bakerville in the late 1860s
Bakerville in the late 1860s
Bakerville is located in the United States
Bakerville
Bakerville
Location of Bakerville, Colorado.
Bakerville is located in Colorado
Bakerville
Bakerville
Bakerville (Colorado)
Coordinates: 39°41′29″N 105°48′18″W / 39.6914°N 105.8050°W / 39.6914; -105.8050[2]
CountryUnited States of America
StateState of Colorado
CountyClear Creek County[1]
Elevation9,787 ft (2,983 m)
Time zoneUTC−07:00 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−06:00 (MDT)
ZIP codes
80452[3]
GNIS pop ID196497

Bakerville is a mining ghost town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. It is located west of modern-day Silver Plume, south of I-70 near the fourteener peaks of Grays and Torreys.

Description

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Bakerville is located south of I-70, along Stevens Gulch Road, which runs towards Grays and Torreys to the South. The location is where Quayle Creek, flowing from Grays and Torreys, feeds into Clear Creek, which flows from the Continental Divide.[4] The town is roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Montezuma. The site currently includes a parking lot and several small structures.

History

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A stream near the town

The settlement was founded by three men: John Baker, William F. Kelso, and Dick Irwin, in 1865 to support their mine. The town and Baker Mine were named for Baker, while the mountain the town sits below was named for Kelso.[5] By the late 1860s, the town sported several log cabins and fences built from timber logged off of Kelso Mountain.[4]

In 2010, Clear Creek County opened a portion of paved trail connecting Bakerville with the Loveland Ski Area. This trail addition was part of a larger project of bike and pedestrian trails ranging from where U.S. Route 6 enters eastern Clear Creek County from Jefferson County to the Bakerville portion that merges with the Continental Divide Trail and leads into Summit County.[6] Bakerville never had a post office.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Colorado Counties". Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Bakerville, Colorado". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  3. ^ "Bakerville (in Clear Creek County, CO) Populated Place Profile". CO HomeTownLocator. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Bakerville, Colorado". Denver Public Library Special Collections. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Colorado Place Names (B)" (PDF). The Colorado Magazine. Vol. XVII, no. 3. May 1940. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Clear Creek County Greenway". Idaho Springs, CO: Clear Creek County. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  7. ^ Bauer, William H.; Ozment, James L.; Willard, John H. (1990). Colorado Post Offices 1859–1989. Golden, Colorado: Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation. ISBN 0-918654-42-4.
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