Oak Creek, Colorado

Oak Creek, Colorado
Oak Creek, Colorado
Town
	Main Street in Oak Creek.
	Location of Oak Creek in Routt County, Colorado.
	Coordinates: 40°16′26″N 106°57′28″W / 40.27389°N 106.95778°W
Country	United States
State	Colorado
County	Routt
Incorporated (town)	December 26, 1907
Government
• Type	Statutory Town
Area
• Total	0.36 sq mi (0.92 km2)
• Land	0.36 sq mi (0.92 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	7,438 ft (2,267 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	889
• Density	2,500/sq mi (970/km2)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP code	80467
Area code	970
FIPS code	08-55155
GNIS feature ID	2413061
Website	townofoakcreek.com

Oak Creek is a Statutory Town in Routt County, Colorado, United States. The population was 889 at the 2020 census.

History

The town was incorporated in 1907^[2] as a coal mining town.^[7] The community was named for scrub oak near the original town site.^[8]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km²), all of it land.

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1910	222	—
1920	967	335.6%
1930	1,211	25.2%
1940	1,769	46.1%
1950	1,488	−15.9%
1960	666	−55.2%
1970	492	−26.1%
1980	929	88.8%
1990	673	−27.6%
2000	849	26.2%
2010	884	4.1%
2020	889	0.6%

^ ^a ^b "Active Colorado Municipalities". State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs. Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Colorado Municipal Incorporations". State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives. December 1, 2004. Retrieved September 2, 2007.
^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oak Creek, Colorado
^ United States Census Bureau. "Oak Creek town; Colorado". Retrieved April 20, 2023.
^ "ZIP Code Lookup". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original (JavaScript/HTML) on September 27, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
^ Berg, Alison (June 13, 2023). "A Colorado high-country town struggles to save its identity in the shadow of a ski resort". Rocky Mountain PBS. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
^ Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 38.