Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 737
Land area (2000): 1.127787 sq. miles (2.920954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.127787 sq. miles (2.920954 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18530
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.747294 N, 105.179283 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cripple Creek
Wikipedia
Cripple Creek may refer to:
Populated places- Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Cripple Creek, Virginia
- Cripple Creek (Colorado), a river
- Cripple Creek (Virginia), a river
- " Cripple Creek (folk song)", a traditional folk song
- " Up on Cripple Creek" by The Band on their self-titled album The Band
- "Cripple Creek Ferry" by Neil Young on the album After the Gold Rush
- "Cripple Creek" by Skip Spence on the album Oar
- Cripple Creek (film), a 1952 Western film directed by Ray Nazarro
Cripple Creek is a river in the United States of Virginia.
"Cripple Creek" is an Old Time Appalachian folk song for the fiddle, though it is often played on the banjo as well. It has become a standard among bluegrass musicians and is often one of the first songs a banjo picker learns. No one knows exactly when it was composed, but there are theories about just where Cripple Creek is. Some say it is Cripple Creek, Virginia, while others say it is based on Cripple Creek, Colorado during the gold rush. It was frequently recorded by early country musicians in the 1920s.
Cripple Creek is a 1952 United States Technicolor Western film based on a story by Frank Gruber.It is 78 minutes long and was released on July 1, 1952. Directed by Ray Nazarro and Written by Richard Schayer. Starring George Montgomery, Jerome Courtland, and Richard Egan
Cripple Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Colorado.
Cripple Creek was named for the fact livestock frequently became injured crossing the stream.
Usage examples of "cripple creek".
I did it because I've wanted to ever since we got back from Cripple Creek.
The possibility that the Chevette might not make it to Victor and Cripple Creek took root in my skull.
They could loop around to the north, through Woodland Park Divide then down through Florissant toward Cripple Creek, or they could ride south past Victor, then swing north around the flank of mountains in the way.
But he did eventually manage to get a good handful of jack from the sour-faced storekeeper in Cripple Creek for the chromed Colt Cobra.
There wasn't much he hadn't been able to fix back in Cripple Creek where he'd been born and raised, and the rest he'd learned even before he'd hooked up with the Trader.
It wound along a narrow valley toward Cripple Creek, terminating near the little settlement of Victor.
Mining communities sprang up, such as the notorious Cripple Creek.
The hard-rock men from the legendary towns of Cripple Creek, Leadville, and Fairplay were no strangers to violence.