Welcome to The Colorado GenWeb Project part of the USGenWeb Project!

On August 1, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant issued the proclamation of statehood.
Colorado was the 38th state to join the Union.

Population 4,301,261

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Links to Counties

• Interactive Map
• County List

Colorado GenWeb Links

• Adopt a County The Wish List
• Information on How to Adopt a Colorado County
• The Reception Committee
  For when you adopt a Colorado County.
• About the Colorado GenWeb Project
• Colorado History
• Colorado Lookups
• Colorado GenWeb Project - Colorado Guest Book
• Colorado Links Page
  Lots more helpful links to information
• HTML Help with Modern HTML 4.01
• County Mail lists
• COGenWeb's Memorial Page
• Naturalization Infomation, part of the COGenWeb Project
• Notes on CO Vital Records
• Colorado News Papers On line
• COGenWeb Queries
• Dating Tyntipes submitted by Leslie
• Colorado GenWeb Project - TRANSLATORS
• Colorado GenWeb Project - Spanish
• Who's Who in COGenWeb
  
  
• Colorado Gold Mine
• Treasure Chest Lost and found memorabilia, Old Bibles, Letters, Documents Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2002
• Gold Mine Photos Lost Pictures that have identified People
• Mystery Photo Galery Can you help identify These People?

Special Projects

• USGenWEb Colorado Archives Project
• Colorado Census Project images and transcriptions on line!
• Colorado GenWeb Deeds Project
• Colorado Grave Stone photo Project

• Colorado Digital Map Library
• Colorado Migrations Project
• The Colorado Military Pages
  To Honor those who served
• The Colorado Native Americans Genealogy and History page
• Colorado Obituary Project
• Colorado Photo Project
• Colorado Places by County
• COKidsGenWeb Project The Colorado Children's Genealogy page.

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries sorted by name
• Cemeteries sorted by county

Archives

• USGW Colorado Archives
• Guidelines for Submissions
• USGenWeb Archives
• State of Colorado Archives
• Colorado State Archives 1870 Census index
• Fort Collins Local History Archive

Genealogical Societies

• Colorado Genealogical Society
• Colorado Genealogical Organizations
• Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies
• Colorado Genealogical Libraries
• Colorado Historical Society

Helpful links

• Vital Records
• Vital Check - Colorado
  (on-line order form for birth and death certificates)
• Colorado Dept of Health
  See Notes
• Search all marriages (from 1975 to Present) in the state of Colorado.
  a searchable data base
• Search all divorces/dissolutions (from 1851 to 1939 and 1968 to Present) in the state of Colorado.
  a searchable data base
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  Listed in Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet for Colorado

• Information on How to Adopt a Colorado County
• The Reception Committee
  For when you adopt a Colorado County.
• About the COGenWeb Project
• about the USGenWeb Project
• USGenWeb Project Copyright Information

Are you having trouble researching your ancestor because you don't know what county they lived in? If so, please take a moment to visit the Unknown Colorado County You will also need to know how to write a Query

Find the County a City/Town/Place is in (Compiled by our own Stanwycks and Lee Zion)  This table provides a great deal of info of towns, boundary lines,and etc. please check frequently, since it is being updated pretty regularly,and the town you are looking for may be there tomorrow.  Lee Zion is now maintaining Colorado Places

Also check out Colorado County Evolution, it traces Colorado from just before the Colorado Territory was created through today, showing the evolution of the county borders.)

Brief History

The territory of Jefferson was voted by the residents in 1859 but was never recognized by congress. Thus some of the counties have organization dates and records prior to 28 February 1861 when the Territory of Colorado was recognized.

The 1860 census showed a population of about 33,000 men, and 1,500 women in the gold camps along the front range. This was taken when Colorado was still split between Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Utah.

The first territorial assembly created the first seventeen counties in September 1861. They were Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Costilla, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Guadalupe (later named Conejos), Huerfano, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Park, Pueblo, Summit and Weld. ₁

The center of the state is approximately 1,500 miles west of the Eastern coast of the United States, 800 miles east of the Western coast, 650 miles south of the northern border with Canada and 475 miles north of the southern border with Mexico. Colorado is bounded on the east by the states of Kansas and Nebraska , on the north by Nebraska and Wyoming , on the west by Utah ,on the South West by Arizona and on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma.

The boundary lines create an almost perfect rectangle, measuring approxiamtely 387 miles from east to west and 276 miles from north to south and covering 104,247 square miles, including 450 square miles of bodies of water. Colorado is the eighth largest state when measured in square miles area. ₂

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