Profile for Telluride, Colorado, CO

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Telluride is a town in San Miguel County.

It is the county seat.

The community was named for tellurium, a semimetallic element not found here.

The latitude of Telluride is 37.937N. The longitude is -107.811W.

It is in the Mountain Standard time zone. Elevation is 8,793 feet.

The estimated population, in 2003, was 2,321.

INCOME SNAPSHOT

Median household income

Local

$51,938

National

$41,994

Source: 2000 census, U.S. Census Bureau

For more census details and comparisons, see our Telluride demographic reports

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PEOPLE:
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RECORDS:
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Telluride is in the San Juan Mountains.

Former and merged names include:
· Columbia

Gold was discovered here in 1875. Mining operations expanded to silver, lead, zinc and copper

The conductor on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad is reputed to have yelled, "To hell you ride!" when the train arrived at the local station

Crime: The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 7. The number of murders and homicides was 0. The violent crime rate was 3 per 1,000 people.

Ranked No. 2 on 50 Best Places to Live list by Men's Journal magazine, 2002

Telluride received national attention for 1990 murder of Eva Schoen, wife of U-Haul heir Sam Schoen.

Well-known residents have included:
· Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
· Oliver Stone, movie director, screenwriter
· Tom Cruise, actor

Local festivals include:

Telluride Film Festival - Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2007
Telluride Bluegrass Festival - June 21-24, 2007
Blues & Brews Festival - Sept. 14-16, 2007

Dates often change. Check Telluride web sites and events links in the sections below.

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Nearby parks & recreation: Bridal Veil Falls

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Historic sites and museums: Telluride Historical Museum

Support for libraries: Local government funding for the local library system, in fiscal years 2001-2002, was above the national average. (See library links below.)

Quotes:
Settlement in the West was not only late, it was irregular. The mining West, and to a degree the timber, the grazing, and the homestead Wests, were raided, not settled; and sometimes raided for one resource after another, by different breeds of raiders. Despite their colorful history, there has hardly been a continuous community life in an Aspen or a Telluride; and when oilfields are superimposed on cattle country in Texas, or subdivisions superimposed on orchards in California, something disruptive has happened in the life of both people and towns.
-- The Sound of Mountain Water
Wallace Stegner

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