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 The Town of
Castle Rock is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat of
Douglas County, Colorado, United States. It is east of the Front
Range of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 6,224 ft (1,897 m). The
town is the center of the burgeoning urbanization of the county.
Castle Rock is named after a prominent castle tower-shaped butte
just north of the town, clearly visible from I-25. Public access is
provided to climb to the top of the rock. Castle Rock is on East Plum
Creek, a small stream which periodically floods. As of 2008, the city is
estimated to have a total population of 44,369. Castle Rock is now
the 17th most populous municipality in Colorado.
Castle
Rock is within the Colorado Foothills Life Zone. Common landforms
in Castle Rock consist of steep hillsides, cliffs, canyons, mesas, and
plateaus. The castle-shaped butte that is the town's namesake sits near
the town's center, immediately north of downtown. The hillsides are covered
with large meadows of grass, small plants, scattered juniper trees and
open ponderosa pine woodlands. Other prominent landforms visible from
Castle Rock include Dawson Butte, Devils Head, Mount Evans and Pikes
Peak.
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