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Ouray County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1877formed

4,874pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Ouray, Ridgway.

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 Ouray titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Beaumont Hotel	Ouray	Building	1973
Jackson, George, House	Ridgway	Building	1996
Ouray City Hall and Walsh Library	Ouray	Building	1975
Ouray Historic District	Ouray	District	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ouray was formed in 1877 (1877-01-18) from San Juan.

OURAY created from SAN JUAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ouray County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,669	4,731	2,620	2,089	2,103	1,601	1,925	3,742	4,874

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	46.2 km
Curecanti National Recreation Area	Park unit	56.2 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

4 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar Hill Cemetery	38.09721	-107.71005
Colona Cemetery	38.3293	-107.79226
Dallas Park Cemetery	38.15858	-107.79844
Dallas Park Cemetery	38.1586	-107.79923

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Guston	37.91638	-107.69034
Sneffels	37.97527	-107.74978

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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