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Moffat County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

15historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

13,292pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Dinosaur, Craig, Greystone.

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 Moffat titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bromide Charcoal Kilns	Greystone	Structure	2000
Castle Park Archeological District	Dinosaur	District	2006
Chew, Rial, Ranch Complex	Dinosaur	District	1987
Craig School #2	Craig	Building	2023
First National Bank Building	Craig	Building	1997
Julien, Denis, Inscription	Dinosaur	Site	1986
Lay School	Lay	Building	2013
Mantle's Cave	Dinosaur	Site	1994
Marcia (pullman car)	Craig	Structure	1975
Old Ladore School	Brown's Park	Building	1975
State Armory	Craig	Building	1992
Two-Bar Ranch	Maybell	Site	1978
Upper Wade and Curtis Cabin	Dinosaur	District	1986
Vanatta Apartments	Craig	Building	1996
White-Indian Contact Site	Sparks	Site	1977

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Moffat was formed in 1911 (1911-02-27) from Routt.

MOFFAT created from ROUTT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,129	5,086	5,946	7,061	13,133	13,184	13,292

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

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bassett Cemetery	40.77764	-108.8465
Craig Cemetery	40.51641	-107.5247
Fairview Cemetery	40.60915	-108.09596
Hughes Cemetery	40.67607	-108.68093
Spring Creek Cemetery	40.72108	-107.91063

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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