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Fremont County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

24historic places

—earliest paper

1861formed

48,939pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 24 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Canon City, Florence, Swissvale.

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 Fremont titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

14 of 24 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

24 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Atwater, Samuel H., House	Canon City	Building	1996
Bridge No. 10/Adelaide Bridge	Florence	Structure	1985
Canon City Downtown Historic District	Canon City	District	1983
Canon City Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Canon City	Building	1986
Canon City Municipal Building	Canon City	Building	1983
Canon City State Armory	Canon City	Building	1999
Christ Episcopal Church	Canon City	Building	1994
Colorado Women's Prison	Canon City	Building	1999
Deputy Warden's House	Canon City	Building	2001
Downtown Florence Historic District	Florence	District	2017
First Presbyterian Church	Canon City	Building	1983
Florence High School	Florence	Building	2022
Greenwood Cemetery	Canon City	Site	2013
Holy Cross Abbey	Canon City	Building	1983
Main Street Bridge	Florence	Structure	2002
McClure House	Canon City	Building	1979
Mount Saint Scholastica Academy, East Building	Canon City	Building	1998
Oil Spring	Canon City	Site	1996
Robison Mansion	Canon City	Building	1984
Rouch Gulch Bridge	Swissvale	Structure	2002
Royal Gorge Bridge and Incline Railway	Canon City	Structure	1983
South Canon High School	Canon City	Building	2005
US Post Office and Federal Building-Canon City Main	Canon City	Building	1986
US Post Office-Florence Main	Florence	Building	1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Fremont was formed in 1861 (1861-11-01) from unknown / original county.

FREMONT created by Colorado Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Fremont County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,064	4,735	15,636	17,883	19,742	18,366	20,196	28,676	46,145	48,939

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.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument	Park unit	52.6 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Abbey Cemetery	38.45197	-105.20129
Fremont Memory Gardens	38.41333	-105.20832
Greenwood Cemetery	38.4274	-105.2472
Hillside Cemetery	38.2961	-105.60888
Howard Cemetery	38.42097	-105.7945
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	38.42781	-105.2451
Lakeside Cemetery	38.42385	-105.22771
Mountain Vale Memory Gardens	38.41527	-105.20748
Penrose Cemetery	38.41305	-105.02692
San Juan Bautisa Cemetery	38.37916	-105.10555
Union Highland Cemetery	38.36666	-105.11664
Upper Beaver Cemetery	38.54443	-105.03108

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Chandler	38.37306	-105.20055

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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