Rico, Colorado | |
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Motto: "A Slice of Paradise" | |
Coordinates: 37°41′32″N108°1′51″W / 37.69222°N 108.03083°W | |
Country | United States |
State | State of Colorado |
County [1] | Dolores County |
Incorporated (town) | February 25, 1880 [2] |
Government | |
• Type | Home rule municipality [1] |
• Mayor | Nicole Pieterse [3] |
• State Representative | Marc Catlin [4] |
Area | |
• Total | 0.68 sq mi (1.76 km2) |
• Land | 0.68 sq mi (1.76 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
Elevation | 8,825 ft (2,690 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 288 |
• Density | 420/sq mi (160/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
ZIP code [8] | 81332 |
Area code | 970 |
FIPS code | 08-64090 |
GNIS feature ID | 0204670 |
Website | townofrico |
Rico is a town in Dolores County, Colorado, United States. It was settled in 1879 as a silver mining center in the Pioneer Mining District; today it functions as a historic and tourism site. The population was 288 at the 2020 census. [7] Its current form of government is that of a home rule municipality.
Rico is a name derived from Spanish meaning "rich". [9]
Rico is located in eastern Dolores County at 37°41′32″N108°1′51″W / 37.69222°N 108.03083°W (37.692095, -108.030839), [10] in the valley of the Dolores River. Colorado State Highway 145 passes through the town as it follows the river, leading southwest 48 miles (77 km) to Cortez and northeast over Lizard Head Pass 27 miles (43 km) to Telluride.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town of Rico has an area of 0.8 square miles (2.0 km2), all of it land. [11]
Rico experiences an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) with long, cold, very snowy winters and short, cool summers due to the high altitude and high precipitation year-round due to orographic lift.[ citation needed ]
Climate data for RICO, COLORADO | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 38.2 (3.4) | 39.9 (4.4) | 43.4 (6.3) | 50.5 (10.3) | 60.7 (15.9) | 70.6 (21.4) | 75.4 (24.1) | 73.2 (22.9) | 66.6 (19.2) | 58.2 (14.6) | 45.8 (7.7) | 39.5 (4.2) | 55.2 (12.9) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 5.2 (−14.9) | 7.6 (−13.6) | 13.4 (−10.3) | 20.9 (−6.2) | 28.2 (−2.1) | 33.7 (0.9) | 40.3 (4.6) | 39.6 (4.2) | 32.7 (0.4) | 24.8 (−4.0) | 14.8 (−9.6) | 7.2 (−13.8) | 22.4 (−5.4) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 2.48 (63) | 2.15 (55) | 2.44 (62) | 1.81 (46) | 1.65 (42) | 1.31 (33) | 2.78 (71) | 2.91 (74) | 2.31 (59) | 2.13 (54) | 2.01 (51) | 2.27 (58) | 26.27 (667) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 32.1 (82) | 26.5 (67) | 30.8 (78) | 18.5 (47) | 6.0 (15) | 0.1 (0.25) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0.5 (1.3) | 7.6 (19) | 21.5 (55) | 26.2 (67) | 171 (430) |
Source: The Western Regional Climate Center [12] |
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1880 | 894 | — | |
1890 | 1,134 | 26.8% | |
1900 | 811 | −28.5% | |
1910 | 368 | −54.6% | |
1920 | 326 | −11.4% | |
1930 | 447 | 37.1% | |
1940 | 388 | −13.2% | |
1950 | 212 | −45.4% | |
1960 | 353 | 66.5% | |
1970 | 275 | −22.1% | |
1980 | 76 | −72.4% | |
1990 | 92 | 21.1% | |
2000 | 205 | 122.8% | |
2010 | 265 | 29.3% | |
2020 | 288 | 8.7% |
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