Cimarron Hills, Colorado
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Cimarron Hills is an
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and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by El Paso County,
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. Cimarron Hills is an enclave of the City of Colorado Springs. The CDP is a part of the
Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
. The population of the Cimarron Hills CDP was 16,161 at the
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. The
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( Zip Codes 80914, 80915, and 80922) serves the area.


Geography

The Cimarron Hills CDP has an area of , including of water.


Demographics

The
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initially defined the for the


Transportation

Highway: Cimarron Hills is 1.5 miles north of U.S. Highway 24. It is also 9 miles from Interstate 25. Air: The community is three miles north of the
Colorado Springs Airport City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport , known as Colorado Springs Airport, is a city-owned public civil-military airport southeast of downtown Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado, United States., effective December 30, 2021. It i ...
. Rail: (Historical information) In 1888, the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called ''Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway'') was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end ...
began construction of a main line between Limon and Colorado Springs, passing through Cimarron Hills. The
Rocky Mountain Rocket The ''Rocky Mountain Rocket'' was a streamlined passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Rock Island's train numbers 7 and 8 ran between Chicago's LaSalle Street Station and Denver's Union Station and Colorado Springs ...
provided passenger service from 1939 to 1966. In later years, the Cadillac and Lake City Railroad provided service between Cimarron Hills and Limon. Although the tracks were removed in the 1980s, the railroad grade can still be seen a
a prominent U-shape in aerial images of Cimarron Hills


See also

* Outline of Colorado **
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* State of Colorado ** Colorado cities and towns ***
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El Paso County, Colorado El Paso County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. The 2020 Census recorded its population as 730,395. The Census Bureau's 2020 result indicates it is the most populous county in Colorado, surpassing the City and County of De ...
**
List of statistical areas in Colorado The U.S. state of Colorado has twenty-one statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States ...
*** Front Range Urban Corridor *** South Central Colorado Urban Area ***
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References


External links


El Paso County website
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