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Saguache County, Colorado

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10historic places

—earliest paper

1866formed

6,368pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Saguache, Crestone, La Garita.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Baca Land Grant No. 4-Baca Ranch Rural Historic Landscape	Crestone	District	2023
Capilla de San Juan Bautista	La Garita	Building	1980
Carnero Creek Pictographs	La Garita	Site	1975
Crestone School	Crestone	Building	1986
First Baptist Church of Moffat	Moffat	Building	2008
Indian Grove	Mosca	Site	2000
Saguache Downtown Historic District	Saguache	District	2014
Saguache Flour Mill	Saguache	Building	1978
Saguache School and Jail Buildings	Saguache	Building	1975
Sargents Water Tank, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Western Line	Sargents	Structure	2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Saguache was formed in 1866 (1866-12-29) from Costilla.

SAGUACHE created by Colorado Territory from COSTILLA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
304	1,973	3,853	4,638	6,173	5,664	4,473	3,935	5,917	6,368

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Campo Santo Cemetery	38.08805	-106.22557
Cotton Creek Cemetery	38.13277	-105.8275
Hillside Cemetery	38.08156	-106.12876
Iris Cemetery	38.40499	-106.82226
Jacks Creek Cemetery	38.19555	-106.35391
Mirage Cemetery	38.11805	-105.86445
Teton Cemetery	37.98805	-105.6775
Villa Grove Cemetery	38.25499	-105.95445
Whites Cemetery	38.2061	-106.07584

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Mirage	38.10278	-105.86446
Sedgewick	38.27917	-106.1478

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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