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Sedgwick County, Colorado

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

2,404pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2004. Most listings are in or near Julesburg.

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 Sedgwick titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Gibello's Caves	Julesburg	Site	2025
Sedgwick County Courthouse	Julesburg	Building	2007
Union Pacific Railroad Julesburg Depot	Julesburg	Building	2004

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sedgwick was formed in 1889 (1889-04-09) from Logan.

SEDGWICK created from LOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,293	971	4,207	5,294	5,095	4,242	3,266	2,747	2,404

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Julesburg Hillside Cemetery	40.96916	-102.24102
Ovid Cemetery	40.97555	-102.3638
Sedgwick Cemetery	40.95754	-102.51555
Woodham Cemetery	40.79249	-102.41102

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Fort Julesburg	40.94305	-102.35824
Fort Sedgwick	40.94305	-102.38046

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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