San Isabel, Colorado

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San Isabel, Colorado
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San Isabel, with Lake Isabel in the foreground.
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San Isabel, Colorado
Location within the state of Colorado
Coordinates: 37°59′15″N105°03′16″W / 37.98750°N 105.05444°W / 37.98750; -105.05444 Coordinates: 37°59′15″N105°03′16″W / 37.98750°N 105.05444°W / 37.98750; -105.05444
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado
County Custer
Elevation [1] 8,514 ft (2,595 m)
Time zone MST (UTC-7)
  Summer (DST) MDT (UTC-6)
ZIP code 81069

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 Isabel Recreation Area. [2]

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Custer County, Colorado county in Colorado

Custer County is the tenth-least populous of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,255. The county seat is Westcliffe.

Colorado State of the United States of America

Colorado is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado was 5,695,564 on July 1, 2018, an increase of 13.25% since the 2010 United States Census.

Geography

San Isabel is located at 37°59′15″N105°03′16″W / 37.98750°N 105.05444°W / 37.98750; -105.05444 (37.9875068 -105.0544361). It is in Colorado's Wet Mountains and is surrounded by the San Isabel National Forest.

Wet Mountains

The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in the southern Rocky Mountains System. There are three variant names of mountain range: Cuerno Verde, Greenhorn Mountains, and Sierra Mojada.

San Isabel National Forest Forest in Colorado, US

San Isabel National Forest is located in central Colorado. The forest contains 19 of the state's 53 fourteeners, peaks over 14,000 feet (4,267 m) high, including Mount Elbert, the highest point in Colorado.

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References

  1. "San Isabel". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Custer County Master Plan" (PDF). Custer County Government. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2018-05-08. San Isabel is located along SH 165. Commercial recreation activities associated with Lake San Isabel, as well as residential use, occur on lots of less than 10 acres in the San Isabel area.