Black Hawk, CO

Black Hawk is a home rule city located in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 127 residents. Black Hawk was a mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and is now a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. Black Hawk is located adjacent to Central City, another historic mining settlement in Gregory Gulch. The district has one elementary school and one high school, Gilpin County Elementary School and Gilpin County Undivided High School. Black Hawk's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Colorado setting.

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The local scoop is how Black Hawk's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The two cities form the federally designated Central City/Black Hawk National Historic District. Black Hawk was incorporated on March 11, 1864, by an act of the Colorado Territorial Legislature, and is recognized as the second incorporated city in Colorado Territory, following Denver. The town is located along the north fork of Clear Creek and Gregory Gulch.