Blue Valley

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Blue Valley is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The population was 173 at the 2020 census. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Blue Valley has never had a post office, but the Idaho Springs post office serves the area.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Blue Valley, CO from NOAA NWS API.

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

Joseph H. August

American cinematographer and co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers (1890-1947)

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Robert Peterson

American art director (1909-1979)

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Charlie Barnabe

Major League Baseball pitcher (1900-1977)

James W. Plummer

American aerospace engineer (1920–2013)

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Elsie Eaves

American engineer and journalist

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Colorado

• Floyd Hill
  3.3 mi away
• Idaho Springs
  3.5 mi away
• Pine Valley
  4.2 mi away
• Upper Witter Gulch
  4.4 mi away
• Echo Hills
  4.5 mi away
• Black Hawk
  7 mi away
• Evergreen
  9.3 mi away
• Brook Forest
  10.1 mi away
• Georgetown
  10.8 mi away
• Empire
  10.9 mi away
• St. Mary's
  11.5 mi away
• Silver Plume
  12.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Blue Valley

Mountains, glaciers, and mines

Karl S. Kellogg · 2016

Into the valley they came-- the Blue and the Gray

Dona Freeman · 1996

Best wildflower hikes Colorado

Chris Kassar · 2017

What I Saw In California

Edwin Bryant · 1848

Anthropological investigations in Amazonia

Robert L. Carneiro · 1985

Mariposa Road

Robert Michael Pyle · 2010

The Food of a Younger Land

Mark Kurlansky · 2009

Afoot and alone

Stephen Powers · 1872

Search results from Open Library.

Recent natural events nearby

• Wildfire 310, Garfield, Colorado
  Wildfires · 2026-08-06 · 134 mi
• Wildfire Moonshine, Albany, Wyoming
  Wildfires · 2026-09-07 · 156 mi
• Wildfire Swiss Roll, Archuleta, Colorado
  Wildfires · 2026-08-20 · 175 mi
• Wildfire Post, Las Animas, Colorado
  Wildfires · 2026-08-11 · 190 mi
• Wildfire Rio Blanco, Archuleta, Colorado
  Wildfires · 2026-07-28 · 195 mi
• Wildfire Cold Springs, Converse, Wyoming
  Wildfires · 2026-08-10 · 209 mi
• Wildfire Sheep Pen, Las Animas, Colorado
  Wildfires · 2026-08-12 · 217 mi
• Wildfire LAUGHLIN, Colfax, New Mexico
  Wildfires · 2026-08-25 · 227 mi

Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).