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Kiowa County, Colorado

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7historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

1,446pop. 2020

10cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2001. Most listings are in or near Eads, Haswell.

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 Kiowa titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
American Legion Hall	Eads	Building	2007
Crow-Hightower House	Eads	Building	2013
Eads Community Church	Eads	Building	2013
Eads School Gymnasium	Eads	Building	2013
Hotel Holly-Haswell Hotel	Haswell	District	2013
Sand Creek Massacre Site	Eads	Site	2001
Sand Creek Massacre Site (Boundary Increase)	Eads	Site	2016

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kiowa was formed in 1889 (1889-04-11) from Bent.

KIOWA created from BENT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kiowa County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,243	701	3,755	2,793	3,003	2,425	1,936	1,622	1,446

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.
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site	Park unit	28.0 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arlington Cemetery	38.32333	-103.3602
Chivington Cemetery	38.42916	-102.54082
Eads Cemetery	38.47055	-102.76666
Eads Pioneer Cemetery	38.46972	-102.78555
France Cemetery	38.46885	-102.57056
Galatea Cemetery	38.5136	-103.00666
Haswell Cemetery	38.44722	-103.17234
Plainview Cemetery	38.44112	-102.43629
Sheridan Lake Cemetery	38.48414	-102.28934
Towner Cemetery	38.46322	-102.09568

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

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Sand Creek	2,762	24.1 km	CO001

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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