Stem Beach is an unincorporated community
Pueblo County, Colorado
Pueblo County ( or ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,162. The county seat is Pueblo. The county was named for the historic city of Pueblo which took its name from the Spanish lan ...
, south of
Pueblo
In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...
. The community is the location of the Stem Beach exit (exit 91) on both north and southbound
Interstate 25
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. A retail cannabis store is located in Stem Beach, on the west side of the freeway, and the
CS Wind
CS Wind is a South Korea-based manufacturer of wind turbine towers. The company's name comes from a pseudonym used by the founder's son, "ChoongSan ()", and means "a heavy mountain that can endure every hardship."
History
Company founder Gim Seon ...
manufacturing facility is located east of the interstate on Tower Road.
Name
The name ''Stem Beach'' comes from the beaches at two reservoirs (
Saint Charles Reservoir Number 2 and Saint Charles Reservoir Number 3) in the community. Reeds with prominent stems grow along the reservoirs' beaches.
See also
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Saint Charles Reservoir
Saint Charles Reservoir is the name of three reservoirs in Pueblo County, Colorado. The first one, called just Saint Charles Reservoir, is located in the mountains of southwestern Pueblo County, southwest of Beulah, at an elevation of . It is loc ...
References
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Unincorporated communities in Pueblo County, Colorado