Prospect Valley, Colorado

Prospect Valley, Colorado
Prospect Valley, Colorado
	Populated Place
	Prospect Valley, looking west along State Highway 52.
	Coordinates: 40°04′25″N104°24′54″W / 40.07361°N 104.41500°W Coordinates: 40°04′25″N104°24′54″W / 40.07361°N 104.41500°W
Country	United States
State	Colorado
County	Weld [1]
Elevation [1]	4,846 ft (1,477 m)
Time zone	MST (UTC-7)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC-6)
ZIP code [2]	80643 (Keenesburg)
GNIS feature ID	180877

Last updated May 03, 2019

Prospect Valley is a populated place in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The Post Office at Keenesburg serves the Prospect Valley postal address.^[2] SH 52 runs east and west through the community.

Weld County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 252,825. The county seat is Greeley.

Colorado is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado was 5,695,564 on July 1, 2018, an increase of 13.25% since the 2010 United States Census.

The Town of Keenesburg is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1127 at the 2010 United States Census.

Geography

Prospect Valley is located at 40°4′25″N104°24′54″W / 40.07361°N 104.41500°W / 40.07361; -104.41500 (40.0735938, -104.4149556),^[3] along State Highway 52, 11 miles east of Keenesburg.

State Highway 52 is a 111 mi (178.6 km) long state highway in northeastern Colorado. The western terminus is at SH 119 near Niwot, and the eastern terminus is at SH 14 in Raymer.

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References

1 2 "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
1 2 "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service. January 2, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2007.
↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

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[GR3-1] 1 2 "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.

[ZIPcode-2] 1 2 "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service. January 2, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2007.

[GR1-3] "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Weld County, Colorado, United States
County seat: Greeley
Cities	Brighton‡ Dacono Evans Fort Lupton Greeley Longmont‡ Northglenn‡ Thornton‡	Map of Colorado highlighting Weld County
Towns	Ault Berthoud‡ Eaton Erie‡ Firestone Frederick Garden City Gilcrest Grover Hudson Johnstown‡ Keenesburg Kersey La Salle Lochbuie‡ Mead Milliken Nunn Pierce Platteville Raymer Severance Windsor‡
CDP	Aristocrat Ranchettes
Unincorporated communities	Adna Auburn Briggsdale Buckingham Carr Cornish Galeton Gill Hereford Highlandlake Ione Lucerne Prospect Valley Puritan Roggen Stoneham Tampa Wattenburg
Ghost towns	Dearfield Keota Masters
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties