Salina is a former mining town in
Boulder County
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,
Colorado
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,
United States
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approximately west of
Boulder
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. Established in 1874, after Colorado's first gold discovery in 1859, Salina was founded by miners who migrated to Boulder from
Salina, Kansas
Salina is a city in, and the county seat of, Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889.
In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory. In 1 ...
. It is located at the junction of Four Mile Canyon and Gold Run roads. The mining camp was originally accessible only by horseback or wagons pulled by mules but later became part of Colorado's
Switzerland Trail when the
Greeley, Salt Lake, & Pacific narrow gauge railroad was built in the early 1880s. Today, most of Salina's original structures still stand, including the one-room schoolhouse,
Salina School, and church, the
Little Church in the Pines, despite some impact from the
Fourmile Canyon wildfire in 2010 and historic flooding during the
2013 Colorado floods
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.
References
Mining communities in Colorado
Populated places established in 1874
Unincorporated communities in Boulder County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
1874 establishments in Colorado Territory
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