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Morgan County, Colorado

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16historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

29,111pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 16 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Fort Morgan, Brush, Snyder.

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 Morgan titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 16 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

16 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
All Saints Church of Eben Ezer	Brush	Building	1982
Antelope Springs Methodist Episcopal Church	Snyder	Building	2013
Central Platoon School	Brush	Building	2001
Farmers State Bank Building	Fort Morgan	Building	1990
Fort Morgan City Hall	Fort Morgan	Building	1995
Fort Morgan Power Plant Building	Fort Morgan	Structure	1994
Fort Morgan State Armory	Fort Morgan	Building	2004
German Evangelical Immanuel Congregational Church	Brush	Building	2005
Knearl School	Brush	Building	1997
Lincoln School	Fort Morgan	Building	2010
Morgan County Courthouse and Jail	Fort Morgan	Building	2002
Rainbow Arch Bridge	Fort Morgan	Structure	1985
Rankin Presbyterian Church	Brush	Building	2007
Sherman Street Historic Residential District	Fort Morgan	District	1987
Trail School, Old	Wiggins	Building	2004
US Post Office-Fort Morgan Main	Fort Morgan	Building	1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Morgan was formed in 1889 (1889-02-19) from Weld.

MORGAN created from WELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,601	3,268	16,124	17,214	18,074	21,192	22,513	27,171	29,111

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

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
Adena Cemetery	40.03031	-103.88494
Brush Memorial Cemetery	40.26083	-103.6325
Eben Ezer Cemetery	40.25435	-103.64354
Hoyt Cemetery	40.04416	-104.07103
J. L. Brush Memorial Cemetery	40.26278	-103.63306
Riverside Cemetery	40.2597	-103.80939
United Presbyterian Church Memorial Garden	40.26101	-103.7854
Weldona Cemetery	40.32249	-103.9636
Wiggins Cemetery	40.23333	-104.04999
Wiggins Cemetery	None	None

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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