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Montrose County, Colorado

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32historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

42,679pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 32 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Montrose, Cimarron, Bedrock.

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 Montrose titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

13 of 32 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

32 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge	Montrose	Building	2004
D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle	Cimarron	Structure	1976
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Box Outfit Car No. 04414	Cimarron	Structure	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Boxcar No. 3132	Cimarron	Structure	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577	Cimarron	Structure	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 278 and Tender	Cimarron	Structure	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5620	Cimarron	Structure	2010
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5679D	Cimarron	Structure	2010
Denver and Rio Grande Depot	Montrose	Building	1982
Dolores River Bridge	Bedrock	Structure	2002
Fetz-Keller Ranch Headquarters	Montrose	District	2019
Fetz-Keller Ranch Headquarters (Boundary Increase)	Montrose	District	2021
Gunnison Tunnel	Montrose	Structure	1979
Hanging Flume	Uravan	Structure	1980
Henry Huff Cabin	Naturita	Building	2019
Knights of Pythias (KP) Building (Additional Documentation)	Montrose	Building	2024
Lathrop, J. V., House	Montrose	Building	1988
Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose	Montrose	Building	1999
Montrose City Hall	Montrose	Building	1982
Montrose County Courthouse	Montrose	Building	1994
Montrose Fruit & Produce Association Building	Montrose	Building	2020
Montrose Masonic Temple, Lodge No. 63	Montrose	Building	2004
North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park	Crawford	District	2005
Rio Grande Southern Railroad Derrick Car	Cimarron	Structure	2010
Shavano Valley Rock Art Site	Montrose	Site	2001
Shavano Valley Rock Art Site (Boundary Increase)	Montrose	Site	2012
Sherman and Ross Block Building	Montrose	Building	2003
Silesca Ranger Station	Grand Mesa	Building	2005
Townsend, Thomas B., House	Montrose	Building	1980
US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building	Montrose	District	1991
US Post Office-Montrose Main	Montrose	Building	1986
Ute Memorial Site	Montrose	Site	1970

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Montrose was formed in 1883 (1883-02-11) from Gunnison.

MONTROSE created from GUNNISON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,980	4,535	11,852	15,418	15,220	18,286	24,352	33,432	42,679

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.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park	Park unit	51.9 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
Ash Mesa Cemetery	38.66584	-108.02046
Button Cemetery	38.40137	-107.81283
Cedar Creek Cemetery	38.4834	-107.85099
Coventry Cemetery	38.17421	-108.38005
Grandview Cemetery	38.4508	-107.87894
Nucla Cemetery	38.27912	-108.56363
Olathe Cemetery	38.59846	-107.97606
Paradox Cemetery	38.36075	-108.94962
Pea Green Cemetery	38.66165	-108.09589
Uncompahgre Memorial Gardens	38.42498	-107.86117

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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