Buffalo Creek, Colorado
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Buffalo Creek is an
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in Jefferson County,
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, United States. The ZIP Code of the Buffalo Creek
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is 80425.


History

The town of Buffalo Creek was established about 1877 along the stream of the same name. The Buffalo Creek
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opened on August 16, 1878. The town has been destroyed by fire several times. The Colorado Trail is approximately 5 miles from Buffalo Creek. It is open for hiking, biking and camping. The Pike National Forest runs through Buffalo Creek where the elevation is 6500 to 6700 ft.


Geography

Buffalo Creek is located at (39.386458,-105.269966). Only parts of the pine forest in and nearby have been caught ablaze, not the entire area.


See also

* Outline of Colorado **
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* State of Colorado ** Colorado cities and towns **
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Jefferson County, Colorado Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 582,910, making it the fourth-most populous county in Colorado. The county seat is Golden, and the most populous city is Lakewood. ...
**** Jefferson County R-1 School District **
Colorado metropolitan areas The U.S. state of Colorado has twenty-one statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States ...
*** Front Range Urban Corridor ***
North Central Colorado Urban Area 240px, An enlargeable map of the 13-county North Central Colorado Urban Area The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the four contiguous metropolitan statistical areas in the north central region of the State of Colorado: the Denver–Au ...
*** Denver-Aurora-Boulder, CO Combined Statistical Area ***
Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The Denver r ...


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