Rico (Colorado)
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 Rico City Hall |
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Colorado | ||
| County : | Dolores County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 42 ′ N , 108 ° 2 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 231 (as of 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 131.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 1.76 km 2 (about 1 mi 2 ) of which 1.76 km 2 (about 1 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 2690 m | ||
| Postal code : | 81332 | ||
| Area code : | +1 970 | ||
| FIPS : | 08-64090 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0204670 | ||
Rico is a small community in Dolores County , Colorado .
The place is in the valley of the Dolores River on Colorado State Highway 145. This is the only road connection from Rico and in winter it is often blocked by masses of snow at Lizard Head Pass . The well-known winter sports resort Telluride is located in the northeast .
The name Rico comes from Spanish and means "rich".
history
Before the arrival of the American boilers and miners, the Ute tribe lived in the area . In prehistoric times, the Anasazi and subsequently tribes of the Pueblo culture settled in the west and south .
In 1776 a Spanish expedition under Juan Maria de Rivera explored the course of the Dolores River.
In 1869 the first prospectors came to the area and staked claims . It was silver - and gold-bearing ores found. These could not be mined because the region was in the Ute reserve. The Ute defended their tribal area aggressively until 1873. By the Brunot Treaty of 1873 they were relocated to the Southern Ute Reservation .
Mining activities intensified and the site was renamed from Carbonate City to Rico in 1879. Stimulated by this boom, the site was laid out in 1880 as planned. From 1880 the ore smelting began on site. In 1881, the Colorado General Assembly resolved the formation of Dolores County, whose county seat was Rico. In 1891 the tracks of the narrow-gauge (914 mm) Rio Grande Southern Railway reached the city. The railway facilities were very extensive and over 1100 people lived in the city. By 1900 ore production and the number of inhabitants fell to 811. At this time, zinc, copper and lead were increasingly mined. There followed a further continuous decline in ore production until it came to an almost complete standstill after the stock market crash in 1929. Before the time of the Second World War, the economy recovered somewhat. In 1947 the county seat of Dolores County changed to Dove Creek . In 1951 the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was shut down.
In 2010 Rico had 265 inhabitants.
Attractions
Some buildings from the pioneering days have been preserved in Rico. There is a small museum about the history of the place on Glasgow Avenue. The Dey Building , William Kauffman House, and Rico City Hall are on the National Register of Historic Places .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ yongli: Brunot Agreement. May 18, 2016, Retrieved February 9, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Dell A. McCoy, Russ Collmann, William A. Graves: The RGS Story, Volume V, Rico and the Mines . Ed .: Sundance Publications, Limited Denver, Colorado. tape 5 . Denver 1996, ISBN 0-913582-61-1 .
- ↑ Jim Mimiaga The Journal Wednesday, June 29, 2016 11:40 AM Updated: Thursday, June 30, 2016 4:31 Am: Rico museum captures rich, surprising history. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Asset Detail. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Asset Detail. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Asset Detail. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .