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Crowley County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

5,922pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1999. Most listings are in or near Crowley.

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 Crowley titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Crowley School	Crowley	Building	1999

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Crowley was formed in 1911 (1911-05-29) from Otero.

CROWLEY created from OTERO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,383	5,398	5,222	3,978	2,988	5,518	5,922

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).

Site	Type	Dist.
Bent's Old Fort Nationa Historic Site	Park unit	41.8 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Lakeview Cemetery	38.23333	-103.67299
Olney Springs Cemetery	38.14783	-103.93138
Sand Arroyo Cemetery	38.46586	-103.52283
Valley View Cemetery	38.25472	-103.74938

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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Search HMdb for Crowley County, Colorado

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