Lincoln Park is a

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(CDP) located in and governed by Fremont County,

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, United States. The CDP is a part of the

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. The population of the Lincoln Park CDP was 3,546 at the

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. The

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( Zip Code 81212) serves the area.

Geography

Lincoln Park is located in eastern Fremont County. It is bordered to the north and west by

, the

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, and to the southeast by

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. The former incorporated town of Prospect Heights now lies within the Lincoln Park CDP. The Lincoln Park CDP has an area of , including of water.

Demographics

The

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initially defined the for the

Environmental issues

In 1958, Cotter Corporation, a company owned by

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, began to process

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ore in

. In the process of mining uranium ore, the company contaminated the surrounding land, and compromised the water supply of nearby Lincoln Park, from

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. In a

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filed by 340 people, the company was accused of lowering nearby land values due to

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both at the site of the mill and along the

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. In 1983, the state of Colorado sued over these damages to the environment; settling for $15 million, Cotter Corporation promised to clean up the mill site. The company resumed work in 1999, but laid off the majority of employees in 2005 after it was determined that shipping ore from Colorado's Western Slope was cost-prohibitive. The water contamination in Lincoln Park remains, and the area has been declared a Superfund site.

References

External links

Fremont County website
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Geography

Demographics

Environmental issues

See also

References

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