Watseka Mine

Watseka Mine is a quarry in Park, Colorado and has an elevation of 11,450 feet.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Address: CO

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alma Junction and Alma.

Alma Junction

Locality

Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.

Alma Junction was the terminal of the Fairplay–Alma branch of the Colorado and Southern railway in Colorado in the United States, which has been abandoned since the early 20th century. Alma Junction is situated 4½ miles northeast of Watseka Mine.

Alma

Village

Photo: DrunkDriver, Public domain.

Alma is a statutory town in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 296 at the 2020 United States census. Alma is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. Alma is situated 5 miles northeast of Watseka Mine.

Fairplay

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Fairplay is a town in the south central region of Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the United States of America. It is believed to be the virtual basis of the fictional town of South Park, in the animated series of the same name.

Watseka Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Park, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.22221° or 39° 13′ 20″ north

Longitude

-106.10696° or 106° 6′ 25″ west

Elevation

11,450 feet (3,490 metres)

Open location code

85FM6VCV+V6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369170455

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5443376

Wikidata ID

Q49457791

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In Other Languages

“Watseka Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Watseka Mine”

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