Nederland, Boulder County, Colorado, USAi

Regional Level Types
Nederland	Town
Boulder County	County
Colorado	State
USA	Country

Nederland (/ˈnɛdərlənd/, NED-ər-lənd) is a statutory town located near Barker Meadow Reservoir in the foothills of southwest Boulder County, Colorado, United States.

Nederland was established in 1874. The town started as a trading post between Ute Indians and European settlers during the 1850s. The town's first economic boom came when minerals such as tungsten, silver, and gold were discovered near Tungsten (east of Nederland), Caribou (northwest of Nederland, 1859), and Eldora (west of Nederland, 1875).

Today Nederland is better known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the nearby Indian Peaks Wilderness, Rocky Mountain National Park, Roosevelt National Forest, and the recently established James Peak Wilderness. Nederland is located 17 miles (ca. 27 km) west of Boulder, 41 miles (ca. 66 km) south of Estes Park, and 47 miles (ca. 76 km) northwest of Denver at the Junction of SH 119 and SH 72 on the Peak to Peak Highway.

In the mid-19th century the first homesteaders gave a variety of names for the area. The town was first called Dayton, then Browns Crossing. In 1871, when the US Postal Service first set up an office, the name was changed to Middle Boulder after the creek that flows through the center of town (and continues eastward to become Boulder Creek).

In 1873 the Caribou Mine, at an elevation of roughly 10,000 feet (ca. 3 km) and 6 miles (ca. 10 km) northwest of the town, was sold to the Mining Company Nederland from the Netherlands. The high elevation meant fierce winds and deep winter snow, so the new owners of the mine decided that it was beneficial to bring ore from Caribou down to Middle Boulder for milling. In the Dutch language, Nederland ("Netherlands" in English) means low land, and based on casual usage by the Dutch miners, Middle Boulder came to be known as Nederland. In 1874 the town was incorporated and adopted Nederland as the official name.

Nederland is located in southwest Boulder County at 39°57′43″N 105°30′38″W (39.961986, −105.510604).[13]

The elevation in the center of town is 8,234 feet (ca. 2,510 m) above sea level. Due west from the town is the Indian Peaks Wilderness within Roosevelt National Forest. The Continental Divide passes through the Wilderness 8 miles (ca. 13 km) west of Nederland.

The town of Nederland has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km²), of which 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km²), or 4.29%, is water, consisting primarily of the west end of Barker Reservoir on Middle Boulder Creek.

Nederland has an alpine subarctic climate (Dfc) due to its high altitude. Summer days are warm, but nights are cool and frost is possible even in mid-summer. Snowfall is possible most of the year.

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Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederland,_Colorado
Wikidata ID:	Q1010528
GeoNames ID:	5432410

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