Dyersville, Colorado

Dyersville, Colorado
ghost town
The remains of Dyersville.
Dyersville
Location of Dyersville, Colorado.
Dyersville
Dyersville (Colorado)
Coordinates: 39°25′14″N 105°59′02″W / 39.4205°N 105.9839°W / 39.4205; -105.9839 (Dyersville, Colorado)[2]
CountryUnited States
StateColorado
CountySummit[1]
Elevation
[2]
10,880 ft (3,320 m)
Time zoneUTC−07:00 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−06:00 (MDT)
ZIP code[3]
(Breckenridge) 80424
Area codes970/748

Dyersville was a mining town — now a ghost town — in Summit County, Colorado, United States. It was named after Methodist minister John Lewis Dyer. Nothing remains of the town except the roofless walls of a couple of log cabins.

History

Methodist minister and prospector John Lewis Dyer, better known as "Father" Dyer, built a cabin in a secluded location along the upper reaches of Indiana Creek in January 1881. He was soon joined in his seclusion by miners and merchants connected to the nearby Warrior's Mark mine. The community named itself after its first resident, Father Dyer.[4] The community never had its own post office.[5] The Breckenridge, Colorado, post office (ZIP code 80424) serves the area.[3]

Notable residents

Geography

The site of Dyersville is located in Summit County at coordinates 39°25′14″N 105°59′02″W / 39.4205°N 105.9839°W / 39.4205; -105.9839 (Dyersville, Colorado) and elevation 10,880 feet (3,316 m). The site is in Indiana Gulch, 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Breckenridge, Colorado.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Colorado Counties". Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Dyersville, Colorado". TopoQuest. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "ZIP Code Lookup". United States Postal Service. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  4. ^ Mark Fiester (1980) Look for me in Heaven, Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, p.380-385.
  5. ^ Bauer, William H.; Ozment, James L.; Willard, John H. (1990). Colorado Post Offices 1859–1989. Golden, Colorado: Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation. ISBN 0-918654-42-4.


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