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Welcome to the Georgetown Home page. The Georgetown Home page provides as much information as possible on Georgetown. Knowing Georgetown’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Georgetown’s Home page, you will also find Georgetown’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Georgetown has a population of 1205. 46.2% of Georgetown’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.8 are female. 35.8% of Georgetown is married and 60.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $323,285, and the average rent is $1,095. Household median income in Georgetown is $36,906, and the individual median income is $32,635. Georgetown’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.1%), Hispanic(7%), Native(1.7%), Black(1.5%), Multiple(0.7%).


The historic Town of Georgetown is the territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,118 at the 2020 United States Census. The former silver mining camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains was established in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.


The federally designated Georgetown-Silver Plume Historic District comprises Georgetown, the neighboring town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two towns. The Georgetown Post Office has the ZIP code 80444.The town sits at an elevation of 8,530 feet (2,600 m) above sea level, nestled in the mountains near the upper end of the valley of Clear Creek in the mountains west of Denver along Interstate 70.


Although population was only about 1,000 at the 2010 census, the town was a historic center of the mining industry in Colorado during the late 19th century, earning the nickname the "Silver Queen of Colorado". It has evolved into a lively historical summer tourist center today with many preserved structures from the heyday of the Colorado Silver Boom.


The town stretches roughly north–south along Clear Creek, hemmed in by the mountains, with the historic downtown located at the southern (upper) end and modern development located at the northern (lower) end of town. Georgetown is now a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.


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