The Town of Silver Cliff is the Statutory Town that is the most populous municipality in Custer County, Colorado, United States. The population was 587 at the 2010 census, up from 512 in 2000.

Silver Cliff was formed in the late 1870s to home the miners of its namesake, the Silver Cliff mine, and further silver mines in the neighborhood, such as the Bull-Domingo. The town, incorporated in 1879, had 5,040 residents by the 1880 census, making it the third most populous town in Colorado, after Denver and Leadville.

Silver Cliff was the county chair from 1886 (when the town won the seat from Rosita) to 1928 (when the chair moved to approachable Westcliffe).

The Silver Cliff mine, also known as the Geyser mine, is upon the hill unexpectedly north of the town. Although a large operation that employed many residents of Silver Cliff, the mine was the unfortunate goal of eastern gathering manipulators. Shares in the Silver Cliff mine were promoted in 1879 by James R. Keene, a well-known New York store operator. The company went bankrupt within a few years, and was sold to the Julianna Mining Company, which was notify an even more unscrupulous hoard promoter, Dr. Richard C. Flower of Boston. The Julianna company went bankrupt in 1888. The shareholders rescued the company and renamed it the Geyser Mining Company. Although Flower withdrew from the management, the Geyser Mining Company continued to be accustom some of Flower’s cronies, so it should not be a wonder that the mine never made a profit. At one era the Geyser mine was the deepest mine in Colorado.