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Jackson County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
3historic places
—earliest paper
1909formed
1,379pop. 2020
1cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2003. Most listings are in or near Gould, Cowdry.

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 Jackson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Colorado State Forest Building ComplexGouldDistrict2017
Hog Park Guard StationCowdryBuilding2003
Lake Agnes CabinGouldBuilding2007

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jackson was formed in 1909 (1909-05-05) from Larimer.

JACKSON created from LARIMER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Jackson County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1,9761,4941,013191019201960197020002020
19101920194019501960198020002020
1,0131,3401,7981,9761,7581,8631,5771,379

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed
NameLatLon
Rand Cemetery40.46692-106.17668

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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