Goldfield, Colorado

Saturday's blog post featured a cute old Victorian near the top of Victor Pass that I daydream of buying, and today's post features a turn of the century city hall/firehouse combo a hundred or so yards away from it. I was perplexed about this building because Victor has a firehouse and city hall in its tiny downtown, so I looked it up. To my surprise, this isn't in Victor at all, it's Goldfield! The 2010 census reported that Goldfield has a population of 49. It's not really a town at all, or even a village -- according to Wikipedia (which has precious little info), it's a census-designated place, whatever that means. Basically Goldfield is this nicely preserved old building and a small handful of homes, some of them clearly dating back to the gold rush days. I want to know more but I'm exhausted right now, so I'll save the research for another post sometime soon.