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99 unusual facts about Colorado


111th Cavalry Regiment

Troop D, 1st Separate Squadron, Colorado Cavalry at Monte Vista (organized and federally recognized 7 October 1920), redesignated Troop D 1 November 1921.

2012 Colorado wildfires

Starting Monday, June 25, 2012, this grassland fire, in and near the small towns of Last Chance and Woodrow in Washington County, burned over 45,000 acres, making it the second largest wildfire by acreage in Colorado in the year 2012 to date, after the High Park fire.

Adrian Carrio

Adrian "Ace" Carrio (born January 12, 1989) is an American race car driver from Monument, Colorado.

Albert McIntire

In 1896 Governor McIntire sent the Colorado National Guard to Leadville due to violence at the Coronado Mine during a strike by the Western Federation of Miners.

Andrew Currie

Mile Zero appeared at numerous film festivals and won a "WorldFest Platinum Award" in Houston, Texas, a "CityTV Award for Best First Feature" in Victoria, British Columbia, and a "Best Feature Award" at Moondance International Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Annie's Song

Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.

Antoine Janis

The first recorded permanent white settler in northern Colorado, he founded the town of Laporte in 1858.

Bayfield, Colorado

Bayfield is a Statutory Town in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Big Dipper Ice Arena

The Fairbanks Gold Kings, a hockey team which began in 1974 as a league team sponsored by the Teamsters Union Local 959, played at the Dipper for many years before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Bill Schade

Schade was the 13th head football coach for the Adams State College Grizzlies located in Alamosa, Colorado

Billy Brennan

Brennan was again selected as a defenceman for the 1962 Pool A tournament in Colorado Springs in the U.S., where he also captained the team.

Brad Lidge

Lidge currently resides in Englewood, Colorado, with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children, daughter Avery Grace and son Rowan Thomas.

Brookside, Colorado

Brookside is a Statutory Town in Fremont County, Colorado, United States.

Carole Murray

Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2008, Murray represents House District 45, which encompasses Teller County and southern Douglas County, Colorado.

Centennial, Wyoming

Loggers returned to the area in 1905 to cut timber for a coal mine near Coalmont in Jackson County, Colorado.

Century Theatres

On July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight showing of the movie The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman, suspected to be one James Eagan Holmes, shot at viewers in Theater 9 at the Century 16 theater, killing twelve people and injuring 58 others.

Charles B. Stone III

Joining the Air Defense Command in February 1946, General Stone assumed command of the 2nd Air Force at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Chas S. Clifton

Starting his own magazine, Iron Mountain: A Journal of Magical Religion in the mid-1980s, he also started a graduate degree in religious studies at the University of Colorado, moving from Manitou Springs to Boulder.

Chicago VI

After recording all of Chicago's first five albums (including the live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall) in New York City, producer James William Guercio had his own Caribou Studios built in Nederland, Colorado during 1972, finished in time for the band to record their sixth album the following February.

Chief Ignacio

Together with the Muache and Capote Utes, the Weeminuche occupied the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southern Colorado and named their capital Ignacio in the chief's honor.

Chris McAllister

He is currently an instructor at a hockey school in Superior, Colorado.

Christoph von Dohnányi

Jens Georg Bachmann, music director of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, had been in the same position at the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2009.

Coal Ridge High School

Coal Ridge High School is a public secondary school in New Castle, Garfield County, Colorado serving New Castle, Silt, and Rifle.

Colorado-Big Thompson Project

Today, the "C-BT" serves over 33 cities and towns in northeastern Colorado, including Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Estes Park, Boulder, and Sterling, encompassed by 7 counties, providing a secondary source of water for around 830,000 people and an irrigated area of 650,000 acres (2,500 km²).

Diane Mott Davidson

Evergreen is where Mott Davidson currently resides with her family.

Dolores River

The section from Slickrock to Bedrock, Colorado goes through the goosenecks of a sandstone canyon with several mostly class II rapids.

Dominant Factor Test

Raley started a poker league in Greeley, Colorado, wherein players paid $20 to compete in a tournament.

Dr. Stan's Prescription, Volume 1

Stan's Prescription, Volume 1 is a live album recorded on March 4, 2004, onboard Moe's Caribbean cruise with filler material recorded on March 17, 1995, in Vail, Colorado.

Early Bird Jenny

The Early Bird Jenny is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Dennis Wiley and produced by the Early Bird Aircraft Company of Erie, Colorado and also by Leading Edge Airfoils of Peyton, Colorado.

Edward Nassour

Edward Nassour born April 7, 1911, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA died December 15, 1962, Sherman Oaks, California, USA was an American producer, head of a motion picture studio, and a special effects animator.

Edwards, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area

The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Office of Management and Budget defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Edwards area of the State of Colorado.

Emil Grosswald

Rademacher had prepared notes for an Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture in Boulder, Colorado in 1963 on Dedekind sums, but fell ill, and Grosswald gave the lecture for him.

Emily Susan Rapp

She was trained as a downhill skier at the Center for Disabled Sports in Winter Park, Colorado.

Enos T. Hotchkiss

Enos T. Hotchkiss (March 29, 1832 - January 20, 1900) was credited as being the founder of both Lake City, Colorado and Hotchkiss, Colorado.

Eric Ludy

He is also the senior pastor at the Church at Ellerslie and the lead instructor at Ellerslie Leadership Training in Windsor, Colorado.

Erich Windisch

Windisch also studied architecture and built three houses - one in Vail and two in Dillon, Colorado.

Ethel Magafan

Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite, and was a member of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

First Baptist Church of Moffat

First Baptist Church of Moffat (also known as Moffat Community Church) is a historic church at 401 Lincoln Avenue in Moffat, Colorado.

Fort Morgan

Fort Morgan (Colorado), a frontier military post located in present-day Fort Morgan, Colorado

Fourmile Canyon Creek

This stream rises west of the old mining settlement of Sunshine.

Francis S. Thayer

Francis Samuel Thayer (September 11, 1822 Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont – November 26, 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Frisco, Colorado

Frisco is a home rule municipality in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 6,000 - 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona; Eldorado, Texas; Westcliffe, Colorado; Mancos, Colorado; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia; and Pringle, South Dakota.

Geography of Denver

Additionally, there is the Ski Train provided by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which takes passengers between Denver and the Winter Park Ski Resort (operation suspended as of January 2009).

Gospel Music Association

Annually held in Estes Park, Colorado, since 1974 "Music in the Rockies" (formally Seminar in the Rockies) is a showcase event for aspiring (often unsigned) songwriters and artists in the Christian music industry.

Guido Maus

beta pictoris gallery is also a supporting member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in Denver, Colorado and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado.

Hanging Lake Tunnel

The Hanging Lake Tunnel is a dual bore highway tunnel carrying Interstate 70 (I-70) and U.S. Highway 6 (US 6) through the southern wall of Glenwood Canyon, just east of exit #125 in Garfield County, Colorado, USA.

Henderson molybdenum mine

The Henderson deposit is located in the Colorado mineral belt, a northeast-southwest alignment of metal deposits that crosses the mountainous part of Colorado from Boulder to Durango.

Hungry Hoboes

Hun­gry Hoboes re-debuted in Telluride, Colorado as part of a special animation shorts program presented by leading film historian and restoration expert Serge Bromberg at the 39th Annual Telluride Film Festival.

J. Curtis Counts

Counts was born on August 2, 1915, in Goldfield, Colorado, where his father was a carpenter, and where his grandfather had mined gold.

Janie Johnson series

They find an address, where Hannah may be living in Boulder, Colorado.

Jessica Gallagher

Gallagher is also a snowboarder, having taken up the sport while on a working holiday in Vail, Colorado before she found out about the Winter Paralympic Games.

John Flerlage

John Flerlage (born 1958) is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and the former Democratic nominee for U.S. House of Representatives in Colorado's 6th congressional district.

John Henry Smith

His second wife, Josephine Grosbeck Smith, spend 1888 until 1896 in exile in Manassa, Colorado, to avoid her being used as a witness to convict Smith of unlawful cohabitation.

Joseph Alfred Slade

Julesburg, Colorado named after Jules Beni, whom Slade killed in 1861 after Beni ambushed and shot him multiple times in 1860.

Josephine Beatrice Bowman

She also served as chief nurse at Fort Lyon, Colorado, a Navy tuberculosis sanitarium for sailors and marines.

KDEN-TV

KDEN-TV, digital channel 29 (virtual channel 25), is the Telemundo owned-and-operated television station licensed to Longmont, Colorado run by NBCUniversal.

KFCY

KDAB (FM), a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Hugo, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KFCY from 2012 to 2013

Kremmling, Colorado

Kremmling is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.

Luke Hochevar

Luke Hochevar was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Fowler, Colorado by parents Brian and Carmen Hochevar along with one brother and one sister.

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, now called Magellan Strategies, is a survey research firm with offices in Louisville, Colorado and Geismar, Louisiana.

Michael Vega

Michael Vega (born September 4, 1969 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actor.

Mihai Gavrilă

He studied also a visiting scholar at several major physics centers around the world: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (at Dubna in Russia), Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, JILA (Boulder, Colorado, USA), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP (Trieste in Italy), and the University of Pittsburgh, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).

Mountain Village, Colorado

Mountain Village is a Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Nellie Walker

Late in life, following the 1948 destruction of her Chicago studio, Walker moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she occasionally modeled pottery for the Van Briggle Pottery company, and she died there in 1973, aged 98.

Nether Lands

The album title is a play on Nederland, Colorado, the location of one of the studios used to record the album.

Nick Stavinoha

He is one of the few players in college baseball to participate in both the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado (twice) and also at the NCAA D1 World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball

The Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, United States.

Nucla, Colorado

Nucla is a Statutory Town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.

Okemo Mountain

Since purchasing Okemo, the Muellers have also acquired Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury, New Hampshire, and Mount Crested Butte in Crested Butte, Colorado.

Oskar Blues Brewery

The company began as a restaurant in Lyons in 1997 and began brewing beer in the basement in 1999.

Paul Foerster

Paul J. Foerster (born November 19, 1963 in Rangely, Colorado) is an American Olympic medalist in sailing, who has won a total of three Olympic medals during his career.

Phacelia formosula

This plant was first collected on August 6, 1918, near Walden, Colorado.

Phantom Canyon

Phantom Canyon is the name of two canyons located in Colorado, in the Western United States.

Rebecca Tobey

In 1994, the work was placed at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, where students created a custom of kissing the bear for good luck during exams.

Redstone Coke Oven Historic District

The Redstone Coke Oven Historic District is located at the intersection of State Highway 133 and Chair Mountain Stables Road outside Redstone, Colorado, United States.

Redstone Inn

The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States.

Richard Wetherill

On December 18, 1888, Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason, cowboys from Mancos, found Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde after spotting the ruins from the top of the mesa.

Saab 9-5

The town of Vail, Colorado, had been using Saabs since 1980, but in 2005, the black 9-5 patrol cars were replaced by Ford Explorers, due to budget reasons.

Sawtooth Botanical Garden

In August 2005 a notable new garden was constructed, the Garden of Infinite Compassion, designed by landscape designer Martin Mosko, Zen Buddhist monk and abbot of the Hakubai Temple in Boulder, Colorado.

Sequoia affinis

There are many Sequoia fossils found at the Florissant fossil beds in Florissant, Colorado, including Sequoia affinis.

Skansen

The name "Skansen" has also been used as a noun to refer to other open-air museums and collections of historic structures, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the United States, e.g. Old World Wisconsin and Fairplay, Colorado.

Snogo Snow Plow

The National Park Service gave the plow to the city of Estes Park, Colorado in 1952, which used it until 1979, when it was damaged by water entering through the exhaust.

St. Elmo Historic District

Elmo Historic District, St. Elmo, Colorado, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed ghost town district that makes up part or all of St. Elmo, Colorado

St. Vrain Creek

North St. Vrain Creek rises northeast of St. Vrain Mountain near Allenspark and descends in a canyon to the east along U.S. Highway 36.

Synthetic fuels in the United States

The United States Bureau of Mines opened a demonstration oil shale mine at Anvils Point, west of Rifle, Colorado, which operated at a small scale.

T. J. Tarsney

On June 22, 1894, he was staying in the Alamo Hotel in Colorado Springs.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival

Telluride Bluegrass Festival is an annual music festival in Telluride, Colorado hosted by Planet Bluegrass.

The Affair at Grover Station

The next day, Rodgers went about the station and then up to Grover, Colorado.

Thomas Keating

Keating currently lives at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, as does Fr.

U.S. Route 6 in Ohio

The route was not extended into Ohio until 1931, when the highway was expanded to Greeley, Colorado.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 1992

Perot also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only 14 counties which Perot won nationwide.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 2000

Colorado is allocated 8 electors because it has 6 congressional districts and 2 senators.

Vera Bryndzei

Her only international success came the next year when Bryndzei became the 1977 World Allround Champion in Keystone.

Weld County Veterans Memorial

Joe P. Martinez of Ault, Colorado, the first Weld County resident to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Wichita State University football team plane crash

In clear and calm weather at 1:14 p.m. on Friday, October 2, 1970, a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles (13 km) west of Silver Plume, Colorado.

William L. Shelton

Following staff college, he was assigned to work for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Air Force Space Command on Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

William Lutley Sclater

He then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been founded by Charlotte's brother-in-law, General William Jackson Palmer.

William Meninger

In 1979 Meninger was transferred to a daughterhouse of Spencer Abbey, St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, where he has served as Prior, vocation director, Master of novices, and teacher of theology and scripture.


Albert R. Ellingwood

He made first ascents of many peaks and routes in the Rocky Mountains, particularly in Colorado, including Lizard Head in the San Juan Mountains, Ellingwood Ridge on La Plata Peak in the Sawatch Range, and Crestone Needle in the Sangre de Cristo Range.

Allen Bradford

Allen Alexander Bradford (1815–1888), Delegate from the Territory of Colorado

Apollo D-2

Seeking professional recognition for their design work on the GE proposal, George Arthur and Jacob Abel publicly presented their papers documenting the GE D-2 design in December 1961 at a special symposium of the American Astronautical Society in Denver, Colorado.

Baskery

2013 saw the group touring Germany supporting Ina Müller before embarking on their own US tour playing across the country, including The Birchmere in Virginia, Four Corners Folk Festival in Colorado and Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon.

Bill Vidal

Vidal served as deputy mayor under John Hickenlooper until Hickenlooper resigned his position as mayor in order to serve as the governor of Colorado.

Cat gap

The La Garita Caldera is a large volcanic caldera located in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, United States, and is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada during the Oligocene Epoch.

Climax mine

The prospector Charles Senter discovered and claimed the outcropping of molybdenite (molybdenum sulfide) veins in 1879, during the Leadville, Colorado, Silver Boom, but he had no idea what the mineral he found was.

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer was the land-grantor of several institutions in Colorado Springs, including the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.

Compleat Angler Hotel

In addition to Ernest Hemingway, additional notable visitors have included Lucille Ball, singer and writer Jimmy Buffett, and Colorado senator Gary Hart, whose presidential aspirations were sunken in 1987 when compromising photographs were released of him at the lodge with a woman who was not his wife.

El Moro Canyon virus

EMCV was isolated from western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis), in El Moro Canyon in southeastern Colorado in 1995.

Emporia State University

In March 2010, the Lady Hornets basketball team won the NCAA Division II National Championship, defeating the Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Skyhawks.

Ernst Haas

Haas also taught frequently at photography workshops, including the Maine Photographic Workshop, the Ansel Adams Workshop in Yosemite National Park, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center near Aspen, Colorado.

Frank Hayes

Frank L. Hays (1922–2003), 35th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States

George Hypolite

While playing for Colorado, He was given the nickname "The Rabid Goldfish" because Colorado alumnus Trey Parker (as Cartman) was announcing the starting lineup names, and called Hypolite "The Rabid Goldfish."

Gypsum, Colorado

The Town of Gypsum is a Home Rule Municipality located in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

James Belich

T. James Belich (born 1976), playwright, also known by pseudonym of Colorado Tolston

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Both these pueblos and missions were on the California side of the Colorado River near the mouth of the Gila River but were administered by the Arizona authorities.

Julie Rosen

Originally from Colorado, Rosen graduated from high school in Denver, and later graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Agronomy from Colorado State University.

KATC

KATC-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

KCQX

KCQX-LP, a defunct low-power radio station (106.9 FM) formerly licensed to Cuchara, Colorado, United States

Kenny Noble Cortes

He graduated from the USAF Academy Prep School and received an appointment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

KLMR

KLMR-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Lamar, Colorado, United States

KLPD

KLPD-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 28) licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States

Lampsilis bracteata

Historically the Texas fatmucket had populations in at least 18 rivers in the upper Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio River systems in central Texas.

Mary MacPherran

Born prematurely in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, Mary MacPherran grew up scrawny and short-statured, inspiring a popular girl at school, Vanessa Ashwood, to nickname her "Skeeter" (a slang word for mosquito).

Michael Zimmerman

Michael E. Zimmerman (born 1946), philosopher at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Mineralogy of the Pikes Peak Region

It can be reached from Colorado Springs by driving up North Cheyenne Cañon.

Minturn, Colorado

Minturn is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Neil Shepard

Shepard studied with William Tremblay for his Master's work at Colorado State University and with Stanley Plumly, Wayne Dodd, and Paul Nelson for his doctoral work at Ohio University.

Norris Division

The Winnipeg Jets return to the Smythe Division when the Colorado Rockies move to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to become the New Jersey Devils; the Devils are moved from the Smythe Division to the Patrick Division.

Organic certification

Some retailers have their stores certified as organic handlers and processors to ensure organic compliance is maintained throughout the supply chain until delivered to consumers, such as Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers, a 60-year old chain based in Colorado.

PBU

Patriot Bible University, a fundamentalist Christian correspondence school located in Del Norte, Colorado

Peanuts Hucko

From 1966, he was featured regularly at Dick Gibson's Colorado jazz parties where he appeared with the Ten Greats of Jazz, later the World's Greatest Jazz Band.

Poundstone

Freda Poundstone, Colorado politician and lobbyist, and drafter of the Poundstone Amendment

R. Brooke Jackson

Jackson was appointed to the state bench in 1998, and in 2003 was named Chief Judge for Colorado's First Judicial District, which covers Jefferson County, Colorado and Gilpin County, Colorado.

Rubén Aguirre

Aguirre was a personal friend of journalist Carlos Villagrán, who later played Quico in the same show and also acted in El Chapulín Colorado.

Salix serissima

These include four in the Black Hills of South Dakota (two on the Black Hills National Forest); one in the Sherman Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming (on the Medicine Bow National Forest); seven in north-central Colorado (one on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest); and one in southwestern Colorado (potentially on the San Juan National Forest).

Senate Conservatives Fund

The PAC also supported a number of candidates that lost their elections, including Sharron Angle in Nevada, Ken Buck in Colorado, Joe Miller in Alaska, John Raese in West Virginia, Dino Rossi in Washington, and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.

Silverthorne, Colorado

The Town of Silverthorne is a Home Rule Municipality that is the second most populous town in Summit County, Colorado.

Snowmass

Snowmass Mountain, a mountain in the Elk Mountains in Colorado, U.S.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Sun Valley Serenade

The film became a Hollywood hit, and served as a recruiting effort for the elite ski corps of the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Camp Hale in Colorado.

Tectoy

They also modified some games to replace characters with local licenses; that way, Teddy Boy became Geraldinho of Glauco, certain Wonder Boy titles became Monica's Gang games and Ghost House also starred El Chapulín Colorado ("Chapolim Colorado"), a Mexican character very popular in Brazil.

Thomas W. Krise

He served on the faculty of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, as a Senior Military Fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington, as Vice Director of the National Defense University Press, as founder and first Director of the Air Force Humanities Institute, and as a flight commander in the Strategic Air Command.

U.S. Route 95 in California

Upon entering San Bernardino County, US 95 turns away from the Colorado River, heading northwest towards Vidal Junction, the junction with SR 62 in the Vidal Valley.

Wiggins, Colorado

Around 1900, Corona was renamed in honor of Oliver P. Wiggins, who served as a guide and scout for Captain John C. Frémont, on some of his explorations through northern Colorado in the 1840s.