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New Castle, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of New Castle a basic history overview.
Welcome to the New Castle Home page. The New Castle Home page provides as much information as possible on New Castle. Knowing New Castle’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within New Castle’s Home page, you will also find New Castle’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
New Castle has a population of 4877. 49.1% of New Castle’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 51.7% of New Castle is married and 70.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $386,619, and the average rent is $1,377. Household median income in New Castle is $82,125, and the individual median income is $39,857. New Castle’s Ethnic is the following: White(89%), Hispanic(24.1%), Multiple(5.8%), Other(4%), Asian(0.8%), Native(0.4%).
When New Castle was incorporated in 1888, its economy was largely based on mining coal that was needed by the silver-mining industry to fire silver smelters. On February 18, 1896, a methane explosion in the Vulcan Mine killed 49 men and started a coal fire that was still burning as of 2020. The Vulcan reopened and suffered additional explosions on December 12, 1913 (killing 37) and November 4, 1918 (killing 3).There are at least 25 coal fires burning near the town.
They are normally confined underground, but in 2002 the Coal Seam Fire destroyed thirty houses in New Castle. From 2000 - 2014 the population grew 129%, much higher than the average growth in Colorado over the same period (20.8%).
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