Fairplay founded

1859 CE.

Shown on the map at 39.224°, -105.998°.

Fairplay is the statutory town that is the county seat of and the most populous municipality in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States census. Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of 9,953 feet (3,034 m). The town is the sixth-highest incorporated municipality in the State of Colorado. Fairplay is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Text from the Wikipedia article Fairplay, Colorado, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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