Editing South Fork, Colorado (section)

==History==
South Fork was once the site of [[sawmill|timber mill]]ing operations.<ref name="DenverPostJune23">{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/coloradowildfires2013/ci_23518316/winds-shift-west-fork-fire-northwest-toward-creede |title=West Fork fire complex at nearly 66,200 acres and feeding on beetle-ravaged forests |date = June 23, 2013 | author=Bruce Finley |newspaper=[[Denver Post]]}}</ref>

South Fork was founded in 1882, by which date its location was already marked by the presence of a coaching post, dating from the construction of the railroad connection of the [[Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad|Rio Grande Western Railroad]] line to [[Creede, Colorado|Creede]], which had been built to support the Creede [[silver mine]].   It was only in 1992 that South Fork achieved independent [[List of cities and towns in Colorado|statutory town]] status, making it the youngest statutory town in [[Colorado|the state]].   Originally the principal economic activities involved forestry and mining, but in recent decades these have been overtaken in the employment statistics by tourism.

South Fork made Colorado headlines during the Summer of 2020 when its town board announced that solicitations for donations was unlawful within town limits. This was in response to a local farmer's market in which one of its vendors was asking people for donations to the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement and the [[NAACP]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/south-fork-tells-farm-owners-asking-for-donations-is-not-allowed/73-f5f21917-b164-4491-851a-a69c0ae9e501 | title=Southern Colorado town tells farm owners asking for donations isn't allowed after BLM drive | date=October 2, 2020 }}</ref>