Clear Creek County, Colorado

Population:
Clear Creek County
Empire
Georgetown
Idaho Springs
Silver Plume
Unincorporated

2000
9,322
355
1,088
1,889
203
5,787

2006
9,130
335
1,054
1,797
190
5,751

Growth
-2.1%
-5.4%
-3.1%
-4.9%
-6.4%
-0.6%

Clear Creek County is in the Front Range Mountains area just west of the Denver Metroplex on I-70. The county is most famous for all the hard-rock gold and silver mining that went on here in the late 1800's. Some of that is still going on... but today, this is an area for visiting and seeing what it was really like in Victorian Colorado days... and take a ride on the Georgetown Loop Railroad while you're at it.