Official Name: | Tarryall, Colorado |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | Counties |
Subdivision Name2: | Park |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1896 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 39.1219°N -105.4756°W |
Elevation Ft: | 8714 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code[1] |
Postal Code: | 80827 (Lake George) |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 183832 |
Tarryall is an unincorporated town eastern Park County, Colorado, United States. The town is located on Tarryall Creek in the eastern edge of the South Park, between Lake George and Jefferson.
The town was founded in 1896 as Puma City, in response to mineral discoveries in the area. Within its first year, it reached a peak population of about a thousand residents. The Tarryall Post Office soon opened to serve the town. The population dwindled as the mineral discoveries proved to be much smaller than first thought. In the 1900s, the town took the name of its post office, Tarryall.[2] Only a handful of residents remain.