What is Castle Rock (Colorado)?
{{Infobox mountain | name = Castle Rock | photo = Castle Rock butte in Castle Rock Colorado.JPG | photo_size = | photo_caption = | elevation_ft = 6590 | elevation_ref = | prominence_ft = 370 | prominence_ref = | listing = | range = | parent_peak = | location = [[Castle Rock, Colorado|Castle Rock]], [[Colorado]],<br>[[United States]] | map = USA Colorado | map_caption = Location in Colorado | map_relief = | map_size = | label_position = | coordinates = {{coord|39|22|44.72|N|104|51|21.79|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | region = | coordinates_ref = | topo = | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }} '''Castle Rock''' is a [[butte]] in the [[Colorado Piedmont]] region of the [[Great Plains]].<ref name=Cliffshade>{{cite web|title=Colorado Geology Overview|work=Colorado Geology Photojournals - A Tribute to Colorado's Physical Past and Present|url=http://www.cliffshade.com/colorado/geo_overview.htm|access-date=2013-10-01}}</ref><ref name=CGS>{{cite web|title=Physiographic Provinces of Colorado|publisher=Colorado Geological Survey|url=http://geosurvey.state.co.us/geology/topography/Pages/Physiographic.aspx|access-date=2013-10-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524151250/http://geosurvey.state.co.us/geology/topography/Pages/Physiographic.aspx|archive-date=2012-05-24}}</ref> The town of [[Castle Rock, Colorado]] is named after the butte.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=19|year=1954|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=13}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Mountains of the United States]] [[Category:Geography of Colorado]] {{US-geo-stub}}