Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- San Miguel
- Type
- Home rule municipality
- Total
- 0.24 sq mi (0.61 km )
- Land
- 0.24 sq mi (0.61 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 9,725 ft (2,964 m)
- Density
- 840/sq mi (320/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 ( MDT )
- Zip code
- 81426 ( PO Box )
- Fips code
- 08-55870
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Ophir
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- San Miguel County
- Population
- 197
- Area
- 0.45551
- Elevation
- 9695
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Official website
- www.town-ophir.co.gov
- Image
- Ophir,CO.jpg
- Households
- 74
- Dialing code
- 970
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- Commons category
- Ophir, Colorado
- postal code
- 81426
- water as percent of area
- 0
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 38007
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Encyclopedic overview
Ophir is a home rule municipality town governed by a general assembly and is located in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. It is located two miles from the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first hydroelectric plant to supply alternating current electricity for an industrial purpose (mining). The population was 197 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ophir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.