Fair play (Colorado)
| Fair play | |
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| Nickname : The Real South Park | |
 View of fair play, the open-air museum in the foreground |
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| Fair Play in Park County | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1859 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Colorado |
| County : | Park County |
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 13 ′ N , 107 ° 0 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) |
| Residents : | 679 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 251.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 2.7 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.7 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 3034 m |
| Postcodes : | 80440, 80456 and 80432 |
| Area code : | +1 719 |
| FIPS : | 08-25610 |
| GNIS ID : | 0169534 |
| Website : | fairplayco.us |
| Mayor : | Fred R. Boyce |
Fairplay is a small community in the US state of Colorado and is located around 120 km southwest of Denver . Fair play was the beginning of the Colorado Gold Rush founded in 1859, when prospectors on the South Platte River in Gold met. The community provides the county seat for Park County and is the fifth highest place in Colorado at an altitude of 3,034 m. It is also the largest settlement in the belt of grasslands known as South Park . Fair play is the model for the fictional city of South Park, Colorado in the animated television series South Park .
geography
Fairplay is on the western edge of South Park, at the intersection of US Highway 285 and Colorado State Highway 9 . The place extends on the flank of a mountain on the banks of the Middle Fork South Platte River . There the State Route follows the river valley north to Alma and the Hoosier Pass .
Fair play geographical coordinates be 39 ° 13 ' N , 106 ° 0' W . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.7 km² and has no significant body of water.
history
The name of the community means "honest game" and at the time emphasized the equality of opportunity that the first prospectors granted all subsequent gold prospectors after they had previously been excluded from the gold digs as latecomers at Tarryall Creek .
The city, founded in 1859, was incorporated as a town on November 15, 1872 .
Gold and silver were mined in the Fairplay mines until the middle of the 20th century.
Today the city consists of both modern supermarkets on the highway and the historic city above the river on Front Street. The northern part of the development on this street is listed and part of an open-air museum with 34 historical buildings, the so-called South Park City , which is supposed to commemorate the early days of the gold rush. There are more than 60,000 items here that illustrate life from that time.
Burro Days
On the last weekend of July, the Burro Days, which have been held since 1948, take place annually in Fairplay . The main event is a race in which the donkeys, led by their supervisors, walk a 47-kilometer path from Fairplay over the Mosquito Pass to the Mosquito Range , overcoming around 1000 meters in altitude. An adaptation of the Burro Days can be found in the South Park episode " Cow Days ".
The race lasts about five hours. There are several other packhorse races in Colorado, the most famous of which is Leadville . In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Leadville race was fair play or the other way around. It followed the route that Father Dyer took on his preaching rounds and delivering the mail. The rivalry between the two cities eventually ended this joint event and resulted in races being held separately.
South Park TV series
The location served the makers of the animated television series South Park as a model for the location of the same name. While various geographic references in the TV series actually point to fair play, the city is much smaller than South Park in the series, which has more of a suburban character. One of the writers on the series, Trey Parker , grew up in Conifer and attended school in Evergreen . These two places are parishes in Jefferson County in the mountains just west of Denver . Co-author Matt Stone lived in Littleton , a suburb of Denver.
Since Fair Play is a regional center for the South Park region, the name South Park was used in the city to name various institutions, including South Park High School .
Although the fictional South Park reflects life in the real city Fairplay resist, but it is in the episode The Night of the Living Homeless (English Night of the Living Homeless ) determined by the figure Gerald Broflovski that the city is "four miles" .
Demographics
At the time of the United States Census 2000, Fairplay inhabited 610 people. The population density was 222.2 people per km ². There were 337 housing units at an average of 122.8 per km ². The population consisted fair play to 93.11% of White , 1.31% Black or African American , 0.98% Native American , 0.33% Asian , 0% Pacific Islander , 2.79% said other races to belong and 1.48% named two or more races. 4.92% of the population declared to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The residents of Fairplay were distributed to 259 households out of which 31.7% were living in children under the age of 18. 51.0% of households were married, 7.7% had a female head of household without a husband, and 34.4% were not families. 25.9% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 3.9% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.79 people.
The population was divided into 23.9% minors, 8.5% 18–24 year olds, 37.5% 25–44 year olds, 24.9% 45–64 year olds and 5.1% aged 65 and over or more. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 women there were 109.6 men. For every 100 women over 18, there were 111.9 men.
The median household income in Fairplay was 50,385 US dollars and the median family income reached the amount of 51,979 US dollars. The median income for men was $ 34,286 compared to $ 26,429 for women. The per capita income was $ 21,742. 9.5% of the population and 6.6% of families had an income below the poverty line , including 10.4% of minors and 5.4% of those aged 65 and over.
Web links
- Town of Fairplay (English)
- South Park Chamber of Commerce (English)
- Map of the CDOT of the Town of Fairplay (PDF, English; 196 kB)
- South Park City Museum (English)
- Burro Days in Fairplay (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Colorado Highways: Elevation-Related Trivia Items ( English ) Matthew E. Salek. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
- ^ Colorado Municipal Incorporations ( English ) State of Colorado , Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives. December 1, 2004. Retrieved July 4, 2009.