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Alamosa County, Colorado

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1913formed
16,376pop. 2020
6cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1989; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Alamosa, Mosca, Hooper.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Colorado is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Alamosa titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alamosa County CourthouseAlamosaBuilding1995
Alamosa Post OfficeAlamosaBuilding2009
Alamosa Spanish CemeteryAlamoosaSite2025
American National Bank BuildingAlamosaBuilding1999
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad DepotAlamosaBuilding1993
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No.169AlamosaStructure2001
First Baptist ChurchAlamosaBuilding2005
Howard StoreHooperBuilding2006
Husung HardwareAlamosaBuilding2000
Medano Ranch HeadquartersMoscaDistrict2004
Mt. Pleasant SchoolAlamosaBuilding2006
Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchAlamosaBuilding1998
St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchAlamosaBuilding2003
Superintendent's Residence, Great Sand Dunes National MonumentMoscaBuilding1989
Trujillo HomesteadMOscaDistrict2004
Trujillo Homesteads NHLHooperDistrict2012
Zapata Ranch HeadquartersMoscaBuilding1993

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Alamosa was formed in 1913 (1913-03-08) from Conejos, Costilla.

ALAMOSA created from CONEJOS and COSTILLA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Alamosa County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

16k11k5,14819201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
5,14810,48410,53110,00011,79914,96616,376

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Great Sand Dunes National Park and PreservePark unit31.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

6 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed
NameLatLon
Alamosa Municipal Cemetery37.44953-105.85915
Alamosa Spanish Cemetery 191337.45944-105.89312
Becker Cemetery37.36695-105.74834
Pioneer Urraca Cemetery37.60222-105.57195
Speiser Cemetery37.71916-105.97474
Urraca Cemetery37.68944-105.54278

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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