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Here are a few that are both large and high: Santa Fe at 6989 feet, Flagstaff at 6900 feet, Gallup at 6508 feet, Cheyenne at 6067 feet and Colorado Springs at 6008 feet.

Colorado has arcane legal distinctions between a "town" and a "city" (more than 2,00o residents qualify as the latter). Leadville, therefore, at 10,152 feet (according to the signs a the town limits) is the highest-elevationed "city." Alma is the highest "town." Montezuma, Colo., at 10,400 feet, is the second-highest town. (Contrary to some reports, Alma and Montezuma are both incorporated.) This situation gets complicated because there is no set standard to exactly where in a town an elevation is measured. Leadville's elevation is measured from the steps of the old town hall. Alma's is measured from the cemetery above town, where there was already an established USGS marker. Since there is no set definition, Winter Park may very well claim itself as the highest town in the U.S.because, within its town limits lies the highest-elevationed point.

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