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Colorado State Highway 119. State Highway 119 ( SH 119) is a 63.7-mile-long (102.5 km) state highway in north central Colorado. It extends in a southwest to northeast direction, from a junction with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Clear Creek Canyon between Golden and Idaho Springs to a junction with Interstate 25 (I-25) east of Longmont .
U.S. Route 24 US 24 highlighted in red Route information Length 1,563.82 mi (2,516.72 km) Existed 1926 –present Major junctions West end I-70 / US 6 near Minturn, CO Major intersections I-25 US 87 in Colorado Springs, CO I-70 near Colby, KS I-29 / I-35 / US 71 in Kansas City, MO I-74 in East Peoria, IL I-55 near Chenoa, IL I-57 in Gilman, IL I-65 in Remington, IN I-69 / I-469 / US 27 / US 30 ...
Mary Jane (Merten) Osborn, microbiologist and biochemist, born in Colorado Springs. William Jackson Palmer, a founder of the city and developer of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Talcott Parsons, sociologist. Kenneth Sims, geologist, born in Colorado Springs. Winfield Scott Stratton, prospector and philanthropist.
719. FIPS code. 08-16000. GNIS feature ID. 2410198 [9] Website. coloradosprings .gov. Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. [6] It is the most populous city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010.
Pikes Peak International Raceway ( PPIR) is a racetrack in the Colorado Springs area within the city limits of Fountain, Colorado, that by October 12, 1997, was "the fastest 1-mile paved oval anywhere". [2] The speedway hosted races in several series including the Indy Racing League and two NASCAR series ( Busch and Truck) until operations were ...
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is located at 215 S. Tejon Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The granite building with a domed clock tower was the El Paso County Courthouse building from 1903 to 1973. The museum, which moved to this location in 1979, has fine arts, artifacts and archival collections that document [1] [3] the Pikes Peak ...
Tesla Experimental Station. The Tesla Experimental Station [1] was a laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA built in 1899 by inventor Nikola Tesla and for his study of the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity in wireless power transmission. Tesla used it for only one year, until 1900, and it was torn down in 1904 to pay his ...
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum ( USOPM) is a historical and cultural sports museum located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, [1] first opened on July 30, 2020. [2] The museum is part of the City for Champions development project in Colorado Springs, though it licenses the Olympic name and operates separately from the ...