{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{short description|Ghost town in Summit County, Colorado}} {{Use American English|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Tiger |official_name = |settlement_type = Mining ghost town |nickname = |motto =
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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP codes |postal_code = 80424 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://colorado.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,3,fid,203919,n,tiger.cfm|title=Tiger, (historical) in Summit County CO|publisher=CO HomeTownLocator|access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref> |area_code = |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 203919<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|id=203917 |name=Tiger, Colorado|date=1 March 1995|accessdate=10 March 2020}}</ref> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Tiger''' is an extinct town in Summit County, Colorado, United States.
A post office called Tiger was established in 1919, and remained in operation until 1940.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO | title=Post offices | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=11 July 2016}}</ref> The community took its name from the Royal Tiger Mines Company.<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|date=1954 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=55|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=49}}</ref> The town site was destroyed before 1995 by the Forest Service in order to be used as a snowmobile track.<ref>{{GNIS|203919|name=Tiger (historical)}}</ref>
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{{Summit County, Colorado}}
Category:Ghost towns in Colorado Category:Former populated places in Summit County, Colorado Category:Geography of Summit County, Colorado
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