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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: ghost town in La Plata County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “May Day”, “Mayday, Colorado”, and “Parrott”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hesperus.

Hamlet
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in , , United States. The Post Office has the ZIP Code 81326. is situated 5 miles southeast of Mayday.

Mayday

Latitude
37.35055° or 37° 21′ 2″ north
Longitude
-108.07674° or 108° 4′ 36″ west
Elevation
8,734 feet (2,662 metres)
Open location code
859H9W2F+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151337863
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5430379
Wiki­data ID
Q6797011
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Mayday” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “梅代”
  • French: “Mayday”
  • Japanese: “パロット”
  • Japanese: “メー・デー”
  • Japanese: “メーデー (コロラド州)”
  • Japanese: “メーデー”
  • Japanese: “メイ・デイ”
  • Japanese: “メイデイ (コロラド州)”
  • Japanese: “メイデイ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mayday”. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.