Dumont is a small
unincorporated community
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and
U.S. Post Office
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situated along
Clear Creek in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The Dumont Post Office has the
ZIP Code 80436.
[ Dumont is a part of the Downieville-Lawson-Dumont ]census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
.
History
Dumont is named for John M. Dumont, a mine operator.
Geography
Dumont is located at (39.764478,-105.599213).
See also
* Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area
Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The Denver regi ...
* Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area
* Front Range Urban Corridor
* List of cities and towns in Colorado
The U.S. Colorado, State of Colorado has 273 municipal corporation, active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 City, cities, and two Consolidated city-county, consolidated city and county governments. The Denver, City and County of Denver ...
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Unincorporated communities in Clear Creek County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
Denver metropolitan area