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Pueblo County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
70historic places
—earliest paper
1861formed
168,162pop. 2020
19cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 70 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Pueblo, Boone, Beulah.

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 Pueblo titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

56 of 70 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

70 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Barndollar-Gann HousePuebloBuilding1985
Baxter HousePuebloBuilding1978
Beaumont, Allen, J., HousePuebloBuilding1983
Black, Dr. John A., House ComplexPuebloBuilding1985
Boone Santa Fe Railroad DepotBooneBuilding1997
Bowen MansionPuebloBuilding1978
Butler HousePuebloDistrict1984
Carlile, James N., HousePuebloBuilding1985
Central High SchoolPuebloBuilding1979
Central Junior High School-Keating Junior High SchoolPuebloBuilding2020
City Park CarouselPuebloStructure1983
Colorado BuildingPuebloBuilding1992
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Administrative Complex NHLPuebloBuilding
Colorado State Hospital Superintendent's HousePuebloBuilding1985
Coronado LodgePuebloBuilding2020
Doyle SettlementPuebloSite1980
Duke, Nathaniel W., HousePuebloBuilding1985
Edison SchoolPuebloBuilding1985
Eighth Street Baptist ChurchPuebloBuilding2024
El PuebloPuebloSite1996
First Congregational ChurchPuebloBuilding1985
First Methodist Episcopal ChurchPuebloBuilding2012
First Methodist Episcopal ChurchPuebloBuilding1979
Fitch TerracePuebloBuilding1986
Frazier, R. T., HousePuebloBuilding1985
Galligan HousePuebloBuilding1982
Gast MansionPuebloBuilding1982
Goodnight BarnPuebloBuilding1974
HazelhurstPuebloBuilding1978
Henkel-Duke Mercantile Company WarehousePuebloBuilding1984
Huerfano BridgeBooneStructure1985
Indian Petroglyphs and PictographsPenroseDistrict1976
King, Dr. Alexander T., House and Carriage HousePuebloBuilding1983
McClelland OrphanagePuebloBuilding1992
Mechanics Building/Masonic BuildingPuebloBuilding1983
Minnequa Steel Works Office Building and Dispensary, Colorado Fuel and Iron CompanyPuebloBuilding2002
Montgomery Ward BuildingPuebloBuilding1996
Orman-Adams HousePuebloBuilding1976
Pitkin Place Historic DistrictPuebloDistrict1978
Pryor, Frank, HousePuebloBuilding1985
Pueblo Christopher Columbus MonumentPuebloObject2011
Pueblo City Park ZooPuebloDistrict1995
Pueblo County CourthousePuebloBuilding1975
Pueblo Federal BuildingPuebloBuilding1978
Pueblo Mountain ParkBeulahDistrict1994
Quaker Flour MillPuebloBuilding1976
Rice, Ward, HousePuebloBuilding1985
Rood Candy Company BuildingPuebloBuilding1984
Roselawn CemeteryPuebloSite2017
RosemountPuebloBuilding1974
Sacred Heart ChurchPuebloBuilding1989
Sacred Heart OrphanagePuebloBuilding1989
Santa Fe Avenue BridgePuebloStructure2002
Squirrel Creek Recreational UnitBeulahDistrict2005
St. Charles BridgePuebloStructure1985
St. Charles River BridgeDevineStructure2003
St. John's Greek Orthodox ChurchPuebloBuilding2002
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) ChurchPuebloBuilding2023
Star Journal Model HomePuebloBuilding1984
Stickney, Charles H., House (Additional Documentation)PuebloBuilding1985
Streit, J. L., HousePuebloBuilding1984
Temple EmanuelPuebloBuilding1996
Tooke-Nuckolls HousePuebloBuilding1985
Tutt BuildingPuebloBuilding1983
Union Avenue Historic Commercial DistrictPuebloDistrict1982
Union DepotPuebloBuilding1975
Vail HotelPuebloBuilding1978
Walter, Martin, HousePuebloBuilding1984
White, Asbury, HousePuebloBuilding1984
Young Women's Christian AssociationPuebloBuilding1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

PUEBLO created by Colorado Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

168k85k2,2651870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,2657,61734,44857,63868,87090,188118,707125,972141,472168,162

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

19 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed
NameLatLon
Ascension Episcopal Church Columbarium38.2833-104.61211
B'Nai Jacob Cemetery38.28897-104.6214
Beulah Cemetery38.0712-104.96505
Brookside Cemetery37.92255-104.92075
Chico Cemetery38.27949-104.39069
Doyle Cemetery38.06028-104.41718
Ecumenical Church Columbarium38.32707-104.77053
Finn Cemetery37.99861-104.37996
Hicklin Family Cemetery37.94513-104.84257
Imperial Memorial Gardens38.22087-104.68264
Masonic Cemetery38.28777-104.62052
Mount Olivet Cemetery37.92342-104.92182
Mountain View Cemetery38.24316-104.63788
Nepesta Cemetery38.16698-104.14359
Roselawn Cemetery38.24032-104.57658
San Jose Church Cemetery38.19083-104.29499
Swallows Cemetery38.30299-104.85749
Verde Cemetery38.07083-104.64636
Wiggins Saint Charles Cemetery38.20319-104.55013
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Capers Spur37.90928-104.70724

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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