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Lincoln County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

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3historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

5,675pop. 2020

25cemeteries

—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 Limon, Hugo.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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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

Property	City	Type	Listed
Hugo Municipal Pool	Hugo	Building	2008
Limon Railroad Depot	Limon	Building	2003
Rock Island Snow Plow No. 95580	Limon	Structure	2018

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lincoln was formed in 1889 (1889-04-11) from Elbert, Bent.

LINCOLN created from ELBERT and BENT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
689	926	8,273	5,882	5,909	5,310	4,663	6,087	5,675

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

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

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arriba Cemetery	39.27485	-103.28652
Arriba Evergreen Cemetery	39.28651	-103.30484
Bovina Cemetery	39.28137	-103.37882
Boyero Cemetery	38.91882	-103.27386
Bucklen Cemetery	38.74498	-103.53613
Clifford Cemetery	39.04054	-103.34854
Doctor A H Coulson Grave	39.14109	-103.47771
Dudley Cemetery	38.71332	-103.60827
Genoa Community Cemetery	39.30137	-103.49077
Genoa Lutheran Cemetery	39.31137	-103.49049
Grandma Forgey Grave	38.6511	-103.66744
Hugo Evergreen Cemetery	39.14507	-103.49064
Hugo Old Cemetery	39.14109	-103.46521
Kirkland Cemetery	38.63888	-103.85216
Liberty Bell Cemetery	38.77999	-103.81383
Liberty Cemetery	39.06704	-103.47953
Lutheran Cemetery	39.32796	-103.4907
Mount Calvary Cemetery	39.14481	-103.49222
Parker Cemetery	39.2302	-103.40398
Pershing Memorial Cemetery	39.26622	-103.68324
Rube Cemetery	38.66832	-103.92467
Samuel Messersmith Grave	38.65027	-103.52077
Spring Hill Cemetery	38.64567	-103.74308
Walks Camp Cemetery	39.43248	-103.6205
Walks Camp Lutheran Cemetery	39.49125	-103.56591

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Wezel	38.79833	-103.45466

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

Historical markers

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