Florissant
Florissant is an unincorporated community, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Teller County, Colorado, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 104 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Teller County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Florissant, CO” and “Florissant, Colorado”
- Postal code: 80816
Places of Interest
Highlights include Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and Hornbek House.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a United States national monument in the south central region of Colorado. It is known for a large abundance of Eocene Epoch fossils, ranging from imprints of twigs and seeds in shale to massive ancient fossilized Sequoia tree stumps which can be more than 40 feet in diameter.
Hornbek House
House
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hornbek House, also known as the Adaline Hornbek Homestead, in Florissant, Colorado was built in 1878 by Adaline Hornbek, who established a ranch in the area to the west of Pike's Peak in the 1870s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake George.
Lake George
Town
Photo: Ken g6, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake George is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Park County, Colorado, United States. The Lake George Post Office has the ZIP Code 80827. Lake George is situated 4½ miles northwest of Florissant.
Florissant
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Teller, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.94583° or 38° 56′ 45″ northLongitude
-105.28944° or 105° 17′ 22″ westPopulation
104Elevation
8,173 feet (2,491 metres)Open location code
85CPWPW6+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 151421280OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5422054Wikidata ID
Q5461910
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Volapük—“Florissant” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Florissant”
- Chechen: “Флориссент”
- Chinese: “弗羅里森特”
- French: “Florissant”
- German: “Florissant”
- Gilaki: “فلورسانت (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “فلورسانت”
- Irish: “Florissant”
- Italian: “Florissant”
- Ladin: “Florissant”
- Persian: “فلوریسنت، کلرادو”
- Persian: “فلوریسنت”
- Polish: “Florissant”
- Serbian: “Флорисант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Florissant, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Florissant”
- Slovenian: “Florissant”
- South Azerbaijani: “فلوریسنت، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “فلوریسنت”
- Spanish: “Florissant”
- Tatar: “Флориссент”
- Ukrainian: “Флориссент”
- Volapük: “Florissant (CO)”
- Volapük: “Florissant, CO”
- Volapük: “Florissant, Colorado”
- Volapük: “Florissant”
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