2022 Map of Central City

About this map

The gold mining legacy of Gilpin County is etched into the high country between Central City and Black Hawk. This survey details the concentrated clusters of fraternal and religious burial grounds situated on the slopes of Nevada Hill and Quartz Hill, including the Independent Order of Oddfellows Cem, Catholic Cem, and Masonic Cem. These sites, along with the settlement at Nevadaville, speak to a dense late-19th-century population supported by intensive mineral extraction. To the south, the terrain descends toward the Interstate 70 corridor where the communities of Dumont and Downieville-Lawson-Dumont follow the banks of the Fall River. The surrounding landscape is largely managed as the Arapaho National Forest and Roosevelt National Forest, preserving a rugged environment marked by numerous named peaks like Mt Pisgah and Bald Mountain.