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

Silverton has a population of 612. 49.5% of Silverton’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.5 are female. 51.8% of Silverton is married and 52% own their own home. The Average Home price is $343,911, and the average rent is $1,038. Household median income in Silverton is $56,042, and the individual median income is $38,438. Silverton’s Ethnic is the following: White(94%), Hispanic(25.3%), Multiple(6%).


Silverton is a statutory town that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The town is located in a remote part of the western San Juan Mountains, a range of the Rocky Mountains. The first mining claims were made in mountains above the Silverton in 1860, near the end of the Colorado Gold Rush and when the land was still controlled by the Utes.


Silverton was established shortly after the Utes ceded the region in the 1873 Brunot Agreement, and the town boomed from silver mining until the Panic of 1893 led to a collapse of the silver market, and boomed again from gold mining until the recession caused by the Panic of 1907. The entire town is included as a federally designated National Historic Landmark District, the Silverton Historic District. Originally called "Bakers Park", Silverton sits in a flat area of the Animas River valley and is surrounded by steep peaks.


Most of the peaks surrounding Silverton are thirteeners, the highest being Storm Peak, at 13,487 feet. The town is less than 15 miles from 7 of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, and is known as one of the premier gateways into the Colorado backcountry. Silverton's last operating mine closed in 1992, and the community now depends primarily on tourism and government remediation and preservation projects.


Silverton is well known because of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a former mine train that is now a National Historic Landmark, and internationally recognized events such as the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run. The town population reached 637 in the U.S. Census 2010.


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