Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Silverton, CO

Silverton is a statutory town that is the county seat of San Juan County, Colorado, as well as the county's most populous community and its only incorporated municipality.

Silverton was established on September 15, 1874, shortly after the Ute people ceded the region under the 1873 Brunot Agreement, and it was incorporated on November 15, 1885.

The town was originally called Baker's Park, after prospector Charles Baker, whose party entered the San Juan Mountains in 1860 and found traces of placer gold.

The 2020 census counted 622 residents in Silverton.

At the 2000 census, Silverton had 255 households.

The entire town of Silverton is a federally designated National Historic Landmark District, designated in 1961 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, with boundaries expanded in 1997.

Silverton boomed on silver mining until the Panic of 1893, then on gold; the Sunnyside Mine became one of Colorado's longest-running and most productive mines, and the region's last operating mine and mill closed in 1992, ending more than a third of the town's jobs.

The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, built to haul ore to Durango and now a National Historic Landmark tourist railroad, brings several trainloads of visitors into Silverton daily during its operating season.

Silverton sits at an elevation of about 9,302 feet in a flat stretch of the Animas River valley surrounded by steep thirteen-thousand-foot peaks, less than 15 miles from seven of Colorado's fourteeners.

The town hosts the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run, and the expert-only Silverton Mountain ski area, opened in 2002, helped turn Silverton into a year-round destination.