Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here are the changes over the past week, based on the Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco: +723
Oct 16th: 7073 | Oct 23rd: 7796
Deaths in Jeffco: +8
Oct 16th: 299 | Oct 23rd: 307
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco: +45
Oct 16th: 629 | Oct 23rd: 674
Recovered in Jeffco: +580
Oct 16th: 5868 | Oct 23rd: 6448
Known Cases in Golden: +16
Oct 16th: 252 | Oct 23rd: 268
School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Masks are required. | City and County fire restrictions are in place. | Clear Creek is now open.
Virtual Golden
Online Church
The following Golden churches have information about virtual services and/or sermons on their websites:
Calvary Episcopal Church | Faith Lutheran Church|First United Methodist Church|First Presbyterian Church|Flatirons Community Church|Golden Church of Christ|Golden Presbyterian Church|Hillside Community Church|Jefferson Unitarian Church|Rockland Community Church|St. Joseph Catholic Church
Real World Golden
9AM-2PM Brunch at the Rose
10AM-4PM Trick or Treat Train
The Railroad Museum is a family-friendly, mostly outdoors experience. While we won’t have Trick-or-Treating as usual this year, there will still be treats for the kids! Tickle your funny bones at the “not so spooky” Haunted Railcar and the Olde Railroaders Silly Graveyard. Enjoy live entertainment, visit our local vendors for a tasty snack, and get photos with the family in front of our Pumpkin Patch cart and Harvest-decorated historical locomotives and railcars! The event will feature Steam Train Rides behind newly restored, 1899-vintage Rio Grande Southern steam locomotive No. 20, plus lots of socially distanced family fun!
11AM Wild West Pub Crawl Tour
There’s nothing like some great stories with a cold beer, and our Wild West Pub Crawl will give you just that! This tour runs about three hours and includes three 10-oz beers*, one at each downtown brewery we stop at. We have more wild and outlandish stories of the Wild West to tell on this tour, but we still squeeze in some Golden History as well.
Live Music:
4PM The Blues Kings at Barrels and Bottles
Golden History Moment
Golden has had some serious floods over the years. Clear Creek collects the drainage from a large area of the mountains–575 square miles, according the coloradowater.org. A downpour anywhere in that watershed will eventually make its way through the streams and gulches and into Clear Creek.
The June 10th, 1948 Colorado Transcript describes one such flood. Late at night, a cloudburst happened in the Guy Hill area. The water flowed into Crawford Gulch, Golden Gate Canyon, and Chressman Gulch, which all poured into Tucker Gulch. The Transcript described it as “a 25 foot wall of water.” It wasn’t just water; the flood carried rocks, trees, and animals along with it.
The flood took out two railroad bridges and three auto bridges that crossed Tucker Gulch, demolished two houses. Golden Police, Jeffco Sheriffs, and Golden Firefighters mobilized to evacuate people in the path of the flood.
Clear Creek was already high, as it generally is in June, and the new surge of floodwater filled it beyond its banks. The Central School (later Mitchell Elementary) was not damaged, but the playground was covered with a deep layer of mud and silt. Parfet Park was also severely damaged. The first floors of the Burgess House and Scott Apartments were both flooded, as were the offices in the Coors porcelain plant.
The Federal, State, County, and City governments have all done a lot of work to mitigate flood dangers over the past 70 years, and fortunately, we don’t see floods like this anymore. At least we haven’t for a while.
