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Liggett is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. It is to the northwest of Lafayette.


Description

Liggett is mostly rural grassland, with a few buildings. Nearby are two lakes, Boulder Creek, and a former
Union Pacific The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, ...
rail line currently owned by the
Regional Transportation District The Regional Transportation District, more commonly referred to as RTD, is the regional agency operating public transit services in all or a portion of eight out of the twelve counties in the Denver–Aurora combined statistical area in the U.S. ...
. Directly to the west of Liggett is 95th Street, heading south to Lafayette and north to
Longmont Longmont is a home rule municipality located in Boulder and Weld counties, Colorado, United States. Its population was 98,885 . Longmont is located northeast of the county seat of Boulder. It is named after Longs Peak, a prominent mountain th ...
. A second road, Valmont Road, terminates at 95th Street and heads west to
Boulder In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In ...
. The post office in Boulder serves Liggett addresses.


History

Liggett was established prior to 1904, and was originally known as White Rock. The name was changed to Liggett sometime between 1945 and 1957. The railway was built through the area in the early 1870s by the Denver & Boulder Valley Railroad, and connected Boulder to
Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
. The rail line was acquired by the
Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...
via a merger in 1898, and later bought by the Regional Transportation District in 2009.


Name

The origin is not known for certain, but the community is possibly named after
Liggett, Indiana Liggett is an unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute metropolitan area The Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as the Wabash Valley, is th ...
.


References

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