Somerset, CO

Somerset is a census-designated place and post office located in and governed by Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 55 residents. Somerset was named after Somerset, Pennsylvania. In 2012, the Aspen Skiing Company built a 3-megawatt methane-to-electricity plant in Somerset at Oxbow Carbon's Elk Creek Mine. The through line in Somerset is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Somerset makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.