Red Wing, Colorado

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Red Wing, Colorado
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Location of Red Wing in Huerfano County, Colorado
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Red Wing (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°44′10″N105°17′24″W / 37.73611°N 105.29000°W / 37.73611; -105.29000 [1]
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County Huerfano
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7,727 ft (2,355 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
GNIS feature ID192669 [1]

Red Wing is an unincorporated community along the Huerfano River in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States.

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Geography

Red Wing is located southwest of Gardner and just east of the Sangre de Cristo Range along County Road 580 in the Huerfano River Valley. The community is agrarian and has many interesting geological features, such as faults, outcrops of Dakota sandstone, and igneous intrusions. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Red Wing, Colorado
  2. "Red Wing, Colorado". Sangres.com. Retrieved May 3, 2018.

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