Municipal · Colorado

City of Central City

Central City is a home rule municipality located in Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, Colorado, United States. Central City is the county seat of and the most populous municipality in Gilpin County. The city population was 779, all in Gilpin County, at the 2020 United States census. The city is a historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and came to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth". Central City and the adjacent city of Black Hawk form the federally designated Central City/Black Hawk Historic District. The city is now a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 101399
FIPS state: 08
FIPS county: 047
FIPS place: 12900
Census record name: CITY OF CENTRAL CITY
Mailing address: PO BOX 249, CENTRAL CITY 80427