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History · Mountain Meadows

Half of Mountain Meadows’ homes were built after 1981

Most of Mountain Meadows was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1902 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Mountain Meadows’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Mountain Meadows are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19023 editions of the USGS map, 1902 to 1978. Watch Mountain Meadows change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountain Meadows’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Mountain Meadows on the map, 1902 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mountain Meadows. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Mountain Meadows on the 1902 USGS mapMountain Meadows on the 1957 USGS mapMountain Meadows on the 1978 USGS map1902Boulder sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mountain Meadows.

The story so far

Mountain Meadows, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mountain Meadows yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Mountain Meadows is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Mountain Meadows CDP was 237 at the United States Census 2020. The Boulder post office (Zip Code 80302) serves the area.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 274 to 237 (-14%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Mountain Meadows

Nobody well known was born in Mountain Meadows itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Edward Lawrie TatumUS genetics scientist · b. 1909
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Kristin DavisAmerican actress · b. 1965
Scott CarpenterAmerican test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut · b. 1925
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John Carroll LynchAmerican character actor and film director · b. 1963
Emma CoburnAmerican steeplechaser · b. 1990
Jack D. FischerAmerican astronaut · b. 1974
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Croesus MinemineGolden Crown Group MinemineLogan MinemineMitchner MinemineMonitor Tunnel MinemineTungsten Lode MinemineVictory MinemineWhite Pine MinemineYellow Pine Minemine

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

SugarloafIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrismanIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.