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Rio Blanco County, Colorado

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

13historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

6,529pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Meeker, Rangely, Yampa.

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 Rio Blanco titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Battle of Milk River Site	Meeker	Site	1975
Canon Pintado	Rangely	District	1975
Carrot Men Pictograph Site	Rangely	Site	1975
Coal Creek School	Meeker	Building	2014
Collage Shelter Site	Rangely	Site	1980
Duck Creek Wickiup Village	Meeker	Site	1975
Fremont Lookout Fortification Site	Rangely	Site	1974
Hay's Ranch Bridge	Meeker	Structure	1985
Hotel Meeker	Meeker	Building	1980
Meeker Historic District	Meeker	District	2019
Meeker I.O.O.F. Lodge-Valentine Lodge No. 47	Meeker	Building	2014
Pyramid Guard Station	Yampa	District	2008
St. James Episcopal Church	Meeker	Building	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rio Blanco was formed in 1889 (1889-03-25) from Garfield.

RIO BLANCO created from GARFIELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,200	1,690	3,135	2,943	4,719	5,150	6,255	5,986	6,529

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

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Highland Cemetery	40.03134	-107.91177
Miller Hill Cemetery	39.88469	-108.29119
Rangely Cemetery	40.09025	-108.76768
Strawberry Creek Cemetery	40.10802	-107.97868

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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