Ophir

Ophir is a home rule municipality town governed by a general assembly and is located in , United States. It is located two miles from the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first hydroelectric plant to supply alternating current electricity for an industrial purpose.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village with 169 residents
  • Description: town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Old Ophir” and “Ophir, Colorado”
  • Postal code: 81426

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mountain Village and Telluride.

Village
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is a home rule municipality in , southwestern . It is located just southwest of , in the . is situated 5 miles north of Ophir.

Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
is in the southern approximately 100 miles from , the intersection of , , , and . is home to the Ski Resort, and home of an independent film festival.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of in . was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines. is situated 6 miles northeast of Ophir.

Ophir

Latitude
37.85686° or 37° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
-107.83138° or 107° 49′ 53″ west
Population
169
Elevation
9,695 feet (2,955 metres)
Open location code
859JV549+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 33129466
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5433515
Wiki­data ID
Q2086617
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ophir” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ophir”
  • Arabic: “أوفير”
  • Aragonese: “Ophir”
  • Arpitan: “Ophir”
  • Asturian: “Ophir”
  • Bambara: “Ophir”
  • Basque: “Ophir”
  • Bavarian: “Ophir”
  • Breton: “Ophir”
  • Cajun French: “Ophir”
  • Catalan: “Ophir”
  • Cebuano: “Ophir”
  • Chechen: “Офир”
  • Chinese: “Ophir”
  • Chinese: “阿斐”
  • Corsican: “Ophir”
  • Croatian: “Ophir”
  • Czech: “Ophir”
  • Danish: “Ophir”
  • Dutch: “Ophir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوفير”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلده اوفير”
  • Esperanto: “Ophir”
  • Estonian: “Ophir”
  • Finnish: “Ophir”
  • French: “Ophir”
  • Friulian: “Ophir”
  • Galician: “Ophir”
  • German: “Ophir”
  • Gilaki: “اوفیر (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “اوفیر”
  • Haitian: “Ophir, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Ophir”
  • Hungarian: “Ophir”
  • Ido: “Ophir”
  • Indonesian: “Ophir”
  • Interlingua: “Ophir”
  • Interlingue: “Ophir”
  • Irish: “Ophir”
  • Italian: “Ophir”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ophir”
  • Kabyle: “Ophir”
  • Kazakh: “Ofïr”
  • Kazakh: “Офир”
  • Kazakh: “وفىير”
  • Kirghiz: “Офир”
  • Kongo: “Ophir”
  • Ladin: “Ophir”
  • Latvian: “Ophir”
  • Ligurian: “Ophir”
  • Limburgan: “Ophir”
  • Lithuanian: “Ophir”
  • Low German: “Ophir”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ophir”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ophir”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Ophir”
  • Malagasy: “Ophir”
  • Malay: “Ophir”
  • Mazanderani: “اوفیر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ophir”
  • Minangkabau: “Ophir”
  • Narom: “Ophir”
  • Neapolitan: “Ophir”
  • Newari: “ओफिर, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “ओफिर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ophir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ophir”
  • Norwegian: “Ophir”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ophir”
  • Papiamento: “Ophir”
  • Persian: “اوفیر”
  • Picard: “Ophir”
  • Piemontese: “Ophir”
  • Polish: “Ophir”
  • Portuguese: “Ophir”
  • Prussian: “Ophir”
  • Romagnol: “Ophir”
  • Romanian: “Ophir”
  • Romansh: “Ophir”
  • Sardinian: “Ophir”
  • Scots: “Ophir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ophir”
  • Serbian: “Ophir”
  • Serbian: “Офер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ophir, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ophir”
  • Sicilian: “Ophir”
  • Slovak: “Ophir”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوفیر، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوفیر”
  • Spanish: “Ophir”
  • Swahili: “Ophir”
  • Swedish: “Ophir”
  • Swiss German: “Ophir”
  • Tatar: “Офир”
  • Turkish: “Ophir”
  • Ukrainian: “Офір”
  • Urdu: “اوفیر، کولوراڈو”
  • Uzbek: “Ophir”
  • Uzbek: “Опҳир”
  • Venetian: “Ophir”
  • Vietnamese: “Ophir”
  • Vlaams: “Ophir”
  • Volapük: “Ophir”
  • Walloon: “Ophir”
  • Welsh: “Ophir, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Ophir”
  • Wolof: “Ophir”
  • Zulu: “Ophir”

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