Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek is a small town in . It is a town steeped in gold mining history, still very much in evidence from the old mine ruins dotted about everywhere.
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  • Type: Town with 1,070 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Cripple Creek, CO”, “Cripple Creek, Colorado”, and “Fremont”
  • Postal code: 80813

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Pisgah Cemetery and Tenderfoot Pass.

Cemetery
Photo: Mutter Erde, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mountain saddle
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
is a mountain pass northeast of Cripple Creek that reaches a peak elevation of 10,200 feet.

School
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is a high school in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States, also serving the city of . It is the sole high school in the Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1.

Cripple Creek

Latitude
38.7467° or 38° 44′ 48″ north
Longitude
-105.1783° or 105° 10′ 42″ west
Population
1,070
Elevation
9,455 feet (2,882 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US UCZ
Open location code
85CPPRWC+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151716833
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5418552
Wiki­data ID
Q117605
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cripple Creek” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كريبل كريك”
  • Basque: “Cripple Creek”
  • Bulgarian: “Крипъл Крийк”
  • Catalan: “Cripple Creek”
  • Cebuano: “Cripple Creek”
  • Chechen: “Крипл-Крик”
  • Chinese: “Cripple Creek”
  • Chinese: “克里普尔溪”
  • Chinese: “克里普爾溪”
  • Czech: “Cripple Creek”
  • Dagbani: “Cripple Creek”
  • Danish: “Cripple Creek”
  • Dutch: “Cripple Creek”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كريبل كريك”
  • French: “Cripple Creek”
  • German: “Cripple Creek”
  • Gilaki: “کریپل کريک (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “کریپل کريک”
  • Haitian: “Cripple Creek, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Hungarian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Irish: “Cripple Creek”
  • Italian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Japanese: “クリップルクリーク”
  • Japanese: “クリプルクリーク”
  • Kazakh: “Криппл Крик”
  • Kirghiz: “Криппл Крик”
  • Korean: “크리플크리크”
  • Ladin: “Cripple Creek”
  • Malagasy: “Cripple Creek, Colorado”
  • Malagasy: “Cripple Creek”
  • Marathi: “क्रिपल क्रीक”
  • Mazanderani: “کریپل کریک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cripple Creek”
  • Navajo: “Béégashii Ndaʼniłhodii”
  • Newari: “क्रिपल क्रीक (कोलोर्याडो)”
  • Newari: “क्रिपल क्रीक, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “क्रिपल क्रीक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cripple Creek”
  • Norwegian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cripple Creek”
  • Persian: “کریپل کریک، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “کریپل کریک”
  • Polish: “Cripple Creek”
  • Portuguese: “Cripple Creek”
  • Russian: “Крипл-Крик”
  • Serbian: “Крипл Крик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cripple Creek, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Silesian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Slovak: “Cripple Creek”
  • Slovenian: “Cripple Creek”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کریپل کریک، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کریپل کریک”
  • Spanish: “Cripple Creek (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Cripple Creek”
  • Swedish: “Cripple Creek”
  • Tatar: “Крипл-Крик”
  • Ukrainian: “Cripple Creek”
  • Ukrainian: “Кріпл-Крік”
  • Urdu: “کرپل کریک، کولوراڈو”
  • Uzbek: “Cripple Creek”
  • Volapük: “Cripple Creek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cripple Creek, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cripple Creek”
  • Welsh: “Cripple Creek, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Cripple Creek”

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