ROLLINSVILLE, CO

Rollinsville is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Rollinsville post office has the ZIP Code 80474 (post office boxes). At the United States Census 2010, the population of the Rollinsville CDP was 181.

History

The Rollinsville Post Office has been in operation since 1871. The community was named for John Q. A. Rollins, a prominent mining executive in Gilpin County in the 1860s and 1870s.

Geography

Rollinsville is located in the mountains southwest of the city of Boulder, on the flank of a hill above South Boulder Creek along State Highway 119 between Nederland and Black Hawk. It consists of a small cluster of residences and several businesses at the terminus of the road leading westward up to Rollins Pass at the summit of the Front Range.

The South Fork of Boulder Creek flows just south of the town. The creek follows the railroad tracks into a small canyon and emerges near the Boulder/Gilpin county border before flowing through Pinecliffe, Colorado.

The Rollinsville CDP has an area of , all land.

Demographics

The United States Census Bureau initially defined the for the