Beulah Valley is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Pueblo County
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 la ...
,
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
, United States. The CDP is a part of the
Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Beulah Valley CDP was 518 at the
United States Census 2020.
The
Beulah post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
serves the area.
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History
The town of Mace's Hole was settled in 1862.[ The town was named for Juan Maes, anglicized to "Mace," a bandit who used the valley for a hideout. The Mace's Hole, Colorado Territory, post office opened on April 23, 1873,][ The Mace's Hole post office was renamed Beulah on October 25, 1876.][ The name is a reference to Isaiah 62:4; it comes from the Hebrew for "married."]Bishop Castle
Bishop Castle is an "elaborate and intricate" "one-man project" named after its constructor, the late Jim Bishop, that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado.
The "castle" is located in south central Colorado on Colorado State Hi ...
, constructed by Jim Bishop
James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book ''The Day Lincoln Was Shot''.
Early life
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he dropped out of school after eighth grad ...
, otherwise known as a "one man castle", is located between Beulah and San Isabel, Colorado
San Isabel is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Colorado, United States. The town is located on the north side of Lake Isabel and alongside Colorado State Highway 165. Businesses in town cater to visitors to the adjacent Lake Isa ...
.
Geography
At the 2020 United States census, the Beulah Valley CDP had an area of , including of water.[
]
Demographics
The United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...
initially defined the for the
See also
* Front Range Urban Corridor
*List of census-designated places in Colorado
The United States, U.S. has 210 census-designated places. The United States Census Bureau defines certain Unincorporated area, unincorporated communities as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each United States census, decennial ...
* List of populated places in Colorado
*List of post offices in Colorado
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
* Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area
References
External links
State of Colorado
History Colorado
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Unincorporated communities in Pueblo County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
Census-designated places in Pueblo County, Colorado
Census-designated places in Colorado