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Crystola, Colorado

unincorporated community in Colorado

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5191456 ↗
Source-derived summary

Crystola is an unincorporated community in El Paso and Teller counties, Colorado, United States. ZIP code 80863 serves Crystola, but mail must be addressed to Woodland Park. Crystola is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

History

The Crystola, Colorado, post office operated from November 24, 1911, until December 31, 1913. The Woodland Park, Colorado, post office (ZIP code 80863) now serves the area.

Editorial summary

“Crystola, Colorado” enters the record as unincorporated community in Colorado. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Crystola, Colorado and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1913—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Crystola, Colorado and unincorporated.
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“Crystola, Colorado” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Crystola, Colorado and unincorporated provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5191456. Authority coordinates are 38.956, -105.027. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “Crystola, Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.