Talk:Leadville, Colorado

message: Leadville is -- or at least was -- the highest incorporated city in the US.  Incorporation being an important part of the distinction.  This has been occasionally challenged by the town of Alma.  The mess is so bad now that some people consider the elevation of Leadville to be 10,430 ft, which parts of it are.  Interestingly, neither the benchmark at city hall nor the one at the county court house is at either 10,152 or 10,430, so which point in particular they are measuring is somewhat of a mystery.  The 10,430 mark is presumably somewhere on Leadville's eastern side.
I seem to recall the city fathers claiming, during one of the more contentious arguments, that they might just "annex Mount Elbert and finish this fight once and for all!".
* Alma - 10,355 ft
* Montezuma - 10,335 ft
* Leadville - 10,152 ft
http://www.mesalek.com/colo/trivia/elev.html
I noticed the variation also in elevation figures.  Wikipedia cites two sources 1) www.leadville.com and 2) infoplease.com. I advocate using the "official" figure of the United States Geological Survery, which I will research. T.E. Goodwin 01:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I researched this when I was working for the Leadville Chamber of Commerce many years ago.  The official accepted number is 10,152.  I couldn't find anyone who would support the 10,430 number, though someone might be able to find it in some newspaper articles.  It would have been sometime before 1994, I think.  --Mdwyer 02:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elevation Controversy

message: This section reads "Many tales from Leadville found their way into H.A.W Tabor's works."  I am not aware that Tabor ever wrote anything of note.  Is their any substantiation for this?  Did someone mistakenly write in Tabor's name instead of that of some novelist?Plazak 17:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: How is "Leadville" pronounced? I once passed through, and recall the locals pronouncing the name differently from what I expected. --Dan (talk) 15:57, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Lead is pronounced just like the metal which was mined in the area.Hoxoh (talk) 07:58, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Does anyone think the article should mention Leadville's historic nickname Cloud City? Richard Myers (talk) 06:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cloud City 

message: A relative who is a Leadville, CO resident told me today that the claim to the title of "Parade Capital U.S.A." was completely fabricated and added to the Wikipedia entry by a high school teacher to prove a point about Wikipedia's (lack of) reliability. I will remove this claim if it is not sourced by January 15, 2011. Engender (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 05:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Parade Capital U.S.A" 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—174.242.240.37 (talk) 02:18, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't stated what you think is wrong, and the coordinates in the article did not seem to be seriously incorrect. I've made a few tweaks; OK now? Deor (talk) 10:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: The famous photographer W.H. Jackson photographed Leadville in 1890.  I wonder if a gallery would work here?  Photos: 
thumb|Leadville Stereoview by WH Jackson c1890 - verso
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I lightened the Jackson image up a bit; I might be able to improve the text (the larger text) a bit if you want.  If you think I'm on the right track let me know and I can fool around with it some more.Steven C. Price 21:58, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery photos... 

message: I divided it into sections with headers and it was changed back.  I rather liked the headers.  Thoughts? Gandydancer (talk) 16:05, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not keen on lots of headers for sections with their own article, looks bitty, but I don't mind either way. There is too much on Baby Doe though... that bit duplicates her article when it should be about the mine. J3Mrs (talk) 18:59, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic section 

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message: Colorado historian bringing stories of Irish Leadville miners to life  Bogger (talk) 07:57, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish heritage

message: The lede properly mentions the elevation, which is over 10,000 feet.  Could it also please mention that it is _cold_, i.e. something like it is, on average, 20 degrees F colder than Denver, or on average 8 degrees F colder than the next highest city of its size in Colorado, or something like that.  How cool it was, when visiting in the summer, was the most striking thing about it, to me.  (Or how cool it feels?  Maybe it feels colder than it would otherwise, due to having low humidity due in part to thin air at such a high elevation?)
*Leadville, Colorado Köppen Climate Classification at weatherbase.com]: This climate type is dominated by the winter season, a long, bitterly cold period with short, clear days, relatively little precipitation mostly in the form ...
*The Best Time to Visit Leadville, CO, US for Weather, Safety ... at https://championtraveler.com: Average temperatures in Leadville vary drastically. Considering humidity, temperatures feel cold all year with a low chance of precipitation most of the .
*more hits to explore to get a more reliable-sounding source. --Doncram (talk) 19:19, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is section "Leadville, Colorado#Climate" with table of temperatures, but currently no statements on Leadville compared to any other location. --Doncram (talk) 21:23, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: how cold it is

message: I just put in "a mile or two" based on Google maps, which I opened on the point location in Oroville, Colorado article.  Then measured distance from there to a point I dropped in downtown Leadville: it was 2.6 miles but the path squiggled, so call it 2 miles.  And California Gulch on the edge of bowl around Leadville is only about 1 mile.  That's my derivation.  I don't think it needs to be explicitly sourced, unless it is challenged, as it is factual.   Or i/we could compose a footnote explaining measurement in mapping software, from which point to which point, etc. What do you think? --Doncram (talk) 22:49, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: how "nearby" was Oroville

message: Hello community,
Edits previously made on Sept 8 have been restored, this time with much needed citation sources. Can anyone please help me consolidate the citation instances? I thought Wikipedia would automatically detect when the same exact ref text was added beyond the first instance. It appears that the Blair (1995) and Buys (2007) books I cited show up multiple times in the References section, which is probably undesirable.
I plan to continue reviewing books from my local libraries on the subject of Leadville and enhancing this article. I also visit Leadville frequently and have a lot of original photos I can upload to enhance the article. My great grandmother was born there in 1884.
I have a major interest in postal history of Leadville. Do you all suggest I create a separate article with this content or should I begin adding it to this main article under a Postal History section? I have a collection of many letters, postcards, and envelopes (covers) related to the town.
Thank you all! Mikepascoe (talk) 14:18, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits in Sept 2023, Citation Sources added, help needed