Alice, Colorado

Alice, Colorado
Alice, Colorado
Town
	Signs at the intersection of Fall River and Alice roads in Alice
	Alice, Colorado Location within Colorado Alice, Colorado Location within the United States
	Coordinates: 39°49′06″N 105°38′34″W[1]
Country	United States
State	Colorado
Counties	Clear Creek[1]
Elevation [1]	10,092 ft (3,076 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)

Alice is an unincorporated community located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.[1]

History

A post office was established at Alice in 1898, and remained in operation until 1938.[2] The community was named after Alice Taylor, the wife of a mine official.[3]

References

"US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
"Place Names of Colorado" (PDF). Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies. 1999. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 6.

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

[2] "Place Names of Colorado" (PDF). Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies. 1999. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.

[3] Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 6.