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Phillips County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

10historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

4,530pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1986. Most listings are in or near Holyoke, Haxtun, Amherst.

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 Phillips titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Evergreen Corner Rural Historic District	Haxtun	Building	2013
First National Bank of Haxtun	Haxtun	Building	1986
Hargreaves Homestead Rural Historic District	Holyoke	District	2013
Harms Farm	Haxtun	District	2016
Heginbotham, W. E., House	Holyoke	District	1988
Millage Farm Rural Historic District	Holyoke	District	2013
Oltjenbruns Farm	Amherst	District	2016
Phillips County Courthouse	Holyoke	Building	2007
Reimer-Smith Oil Station	Holyoke	Building	2000
Shirley Hotel	Haxtun	Building	2002

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Phillips was formed in 1889 (1889-03-27) from Logan.

PHILLIPS created from LOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,642	1,583	5,499	4,948	4,924	4,440	4,542	4,480	4,530

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

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Amherst Cemetery	40.70555	-102.16074
Bryant Cemetery	40.47276	-102.6388
Haxtun Cemetery	40.64374	-102.63707
Holyoke Memorial Park	40.57376	-102.28165
Jarvis Cemetery	40.5061	-102.51214
Paoli Cemetery	40.6286	-102.4838
Pleasant Valley Cemetery	40.54977	-102.09052
Posegate Cemetery	40.58499	-102.47575

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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