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Park County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

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28historic places

—earliest paper

1861formed

17,390pop. 2020

18cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 28 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Fairplay, Hartsel, Como.

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 Park titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 28 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

28 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boreas Railroad Station Site	Como	Site	1993
Buckley Ranch	Hartsel	District	2000
Colorado Salt Works	Hartsel	Building	2001
Como Cemetery	Como	District	2017
Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex	Como	Building	1983
Como School	Como	Building	2000
EM Ranch	Hartsel	District	2002
Estabrook Historic District	Bailey	District	1980
Fairplay Hotel	Fairplay	Building	2008
Glenisle	Bailey	Building	1985
Guiraud-McDowell Ranch	Garo	District	2016
Jefferson Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Depot	Jefferson	Building	1998
Paris Mill	Alma	Building	2013
Park County Courthouse and Jail	Fairplay	Building	1979
Salt Works Ranch	Hartsel	District	2001
Shawnee	Shawnee	District	2010
South Park City Museum	Fairplay	District	2014
South Park Community Church	Fairplay	Building	1977
South Park Lager Beer Brewery	Fairplay	Building	1974
South Platte River Bridge	Lake George	Structure	2018
Spring House-Moynahan House	Alma	Building	2021
Summer Saloon	Fairplay	Building	1974
Tarryall Rural Historic District	Jefferson	District	2017
Tarryall School	Tarryall	Building	1985
Threemile Gulch	Hartsel	District	2011
Trout Creek-Annex-Settele Ranch	Fairplay	District	2008
Victor Williams Homestead-Sprague Sand Creek Ranch	Lake George	District	2024
Wahl Ranch	Jefferson	District	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Park was formed in 1861 (1861-11-01) from unknown / original county.

PARK created by Colorado Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Park County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
447	3,970	2,998	1,977	3,272	1,870	1,822	5,333	14,523	17,390

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.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument	Park unit	44.0 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

18 cemeteries and 6 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Baldwin Cemetery	39.41194	-105.50055
Bordenville Cemetery	39.27402	-105.67485
Buckskin Cemetery	39.29082	-106.07751
Buffalo Springs Cemetery	39.00555	-105.97249
Como Cemetery	39.32556	-105.90223
Dudley Cemetery	39.29527	-106.06666
Fairplay Cemetery	39.22193	-105.98141
Farnum Cemetery	39.18638	-105.53916
Glen Isle Point Cemetery	39.4086	-105.49499
Hartsel Cemetery	39.01666	-105.79249
Horn Cemetery	39.44401	-105.44405
Lake George Cemetery	38.99804	-105.36721
Lamping Family Cemetery	39.45813	-105.7211
Old Fairplay Cemetery	39.22333	-105.98361
Park City Cemetery	39.27804	-106.07556
Rocky Cemetery	38.98555	-105.41971
Shawnee Cemetery	39.4218	-105.55492
Webster Cemetery	39.45614	-105.72381

Historical populated places — 6 of 6

Name	Lat	Lon
Dudley	39.29693	-106.07169
Horseshoe	39.20388	-106.0853
Leavick	39.19499	-106.13752
Park City	39.27832	-106.09308
Quartzville	39.34499	-106.07724
Trump	38.84916	-105.78834

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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