Timberline Disposal provides Silver Plume residential customers with curb side trash & recycling pickup each Tuesday free of charge. They also provide 3 dumpsters in town for the residents who live on the steep roads in town which do not have the convenience of curbside pickup at their homes on Tuesdays because of snowy/icy conditions.
These dumpsters are for residential garbage only and are emptied weekly:
HELPFUL TIPS:
Please help Silver Plume set the example and not be a source of food to attract the bears who live in our area.
Thank you,
Martin Gitlin, Trustee
(On behalf of the Silver Plume Mayor & Board of Trustees)
Elevation: 9116 Population: 203*
*Population figure may include dogs, drop-ins, and ground squirrels.
Silver Plume is a Home Rule Town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The Town is a former silver mining camp situated along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
The federally designated Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic District comprises Silver Plume, the neighboring Town of Georgetown, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two towns.
The town population was 203 at U.S. Census 2000. The Silver Plume Post Office has the ZIP Code 80476.
Silver Plume is part of the Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District Written by the late John Calhoun – written in 1995 – (some details may have changed):Period photos are available at the “Digital Images” section of the Denver Public Library.Silver Plume is a very small, old, rural mining town dating from the Colorado gold and silver rush of the last four decades of the 19th century.
In 1859, gold was discovered at the confluence of Clear Creek and the Platte River near what is now Denver. Inspired by the 1849 California gold rush and by Horace Greeley’s immortal if misguided promotional admonition to “Go west, young man, go west,” literally thousands of fortune-seekers headed up Clear Creek into the Rocky Mountains, seeking the veins of ore that were the source of the nuggets and dust found in the waters of the Creek.
Silver Plume is a peaceful town comprising the kind of independent citizens who love the serenity and inspiration of living nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
Actual local Events may be few and far between, but the Town's leaders regularly meet to manage and maintain its civic resources and philosophies.
Town Events are interspersed with civic meetings and can be found by clicking on the link below.