Fairplay (Colorado)
Park County
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Fair Play is a small municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado and is located about 120 km southwest of Denver. Fairplay was founded at the beginning of the Colorado Gold Rush in 1859 when prospectors on the South Platte encountered gold. The municipality is the county seat of Park County and is at an altitude of 3034 m the fünfthöchstgelegenste place in Colorado. It also is the largest settlement in the prairie belt, which is called South Park. Fair play is the model for the fictional town of South Park, Colorado in the animated television series South Park.
Geography
Fairplay is located on the western edge of South Park, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 285 and Colorado State Highway 9 The site stretches out on the flank of a mountain on the banks of the Middle Fork South Platte River. There, the State Route follows the river valley northward to Alma and Hoosier Pass to.
Fair play loud geographical coordinates 39 ° 13 ' N, 106 ° 0' W39.224444444444 - 105.99805555556. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.7 km ² and has no significant water areas.
History
The name of the village means " fair play " and lifted his time the opportunities out who conceded the first prospectors all subsequent prospectors after they were previously excluded themselves on Tarryall Creek as latecomers of the gold excavations.
The city was founded in 1859, incorporated on 15 November 1872 as Town.
In the mines of fair play gold and silver was mined until the middle of the 20th century.
Today, the city consists of both modern supermarkets on Highway as well as from the historic town above the river on Front Street. The northern part of the buildings on this street is listed and part of an open air museum with 34 historic buildings, the so-called South Park City, which is reminiscent of the early days of the gold rush. Here you can find more than 60,000 objects that illustrate the life of that time.
Burro Days
On the last weekend in July since 1948, the discharged Burro Days ( " Pack Mule Days" ) will be held in Fairplay annually. The main event is a race where the donkeys, led by their caregivers, a roughly 47 -mile walk of fair play on the Mosquito Pass to Mosquito Range back, overcoming approximately 1000 meters of altitude. An adaptation of the Burro Days is found in the South Park episode " Cow Days".
The race takes about five hours. There are some other burro race in Colorado, the most famous of which is the Leadville. In the 1960s and at the beginning of the 1970s the race from Leadville led by fair play, and it took place in the reverse direction. It thus followed the route that Father Dyer struck on his preaching rounds and for discharging the post. The rivalry between the two cities finally finished this joint event and led to separately held races.
Television series South Park
The place was used by the creators of the animated television series South Park as a model for the same scene of the action. Although have different geographical references in the television series really fair play, but the city is much smaller than South Park in the series, the more has the character of a suburb. One of the authors of the series, Trey Parker, grew up in Conifer and attended school in Evergreen. These two places are communities in Jefferson County in the mountains just west of Denver. Co-author Matt Stone again lived in Littleton, a suburb of Denver.
Because fair play is a regional center for the South Park region, the name South Park in the city to name various institutions, including the South Park High School was.
Although the fictional South Park reflects life in the real city fair play, but it is in the episode The Night of the Living Homeless (English Night of the Living Homeless ) determined by the character Gerald Broflovski that the city " four miles " lies.
Demography
At the time of the census of 2000, there were 610 people Fairplay. The population density was 222.2 people per km ². There were 337 housing units at an average 122.8 per km ². The population consisted of fair play 93.11 % White, 1.31 % African American, 0.98% Native American, 0.33 % Asian, 0 % Pacific Islander, 2.79 % reported from other races, and 1.48 % from two or more races. 4.92 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Residents of fair play were distributed to 259 households out of which 31.7 % were living in children under 18 years. 51.0 % married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4 % were non-families. 25.9% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 3.9 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size is 2.79 people.
The population was spread out with 23.9 % under the, 8.5 % 18 -24- year-old, 37.5 % 25-44 year olds, 24.9% of 45-64 year olds and 5.1 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 109.6 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 111.9 males.
The median household income in Fair Play was 50 385 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the level of 51 979 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 34 286 U.S. dollars, compared to 26 429 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income amounted to 21,742 U.S. dollars. 9.5 % of the population and 6.6 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 10.4 % of minors and 5.4 % of those age 65 or over.