Bent County, Colorado

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Established: 1870 Parent County: Las Animas & Indian Reserves County Seat: Las Animas
Population 2000: 5,998 Location: 37:58:00N . 103:04:00W Land area: 1514 square miles
Neighboring Counties: Baca County, Kiowa County, Las Animas County, Otero County, and Prowers County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

Bent County Clerk And Recorder   Pioneer Historical Society
532 Carson Ave.   [History of Bent County]
P.O. Box 468   305 St. Vrain Avenue
Las Animas, CO 81054   Las Animas, CO 81054
Phone: 719-456-0422   Phone: (719) 456-2005
Fax: 719- 456-1210    
Email: lacityclerk@southeastcolorado.net   Las Animas-Bent County District Library
    5th Street
Office Hours are   Las Animas, CO 81054
Monday - Friday,   Phone: (719) 456-0111
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Email: donna.burns@bentco.lib.co.us
Charmaine Tripp, City Clerk and Treasurer    
    Colorado State Archives - Online Indexes
Bent County Chamber Of Commerce    
Ambassador Thompson Boulevard   US GenWen Archives
Las Animas, CO 81054   Biographies
Phone: (719) 456-0453   Cemeteries
    1870 Mortality Schedule
Bent County Democrat (Local Newspaper)   1880 Mortality Schedule
516 Carson Avenue   1911- Caddoa - City Directory
Las Animas, CO 81054   1911- Las Animas - City Directory
Phone: (719) 456-1333   1911- Mc Clave - City Directory
    1911- Prowers - City Directory
Vital Records, Cemetery Resources   Bergsten, Freddie August 1918 - Obit
 McClave Cemetery, McClave    
Bent County Cemeteries - Interment.net   Miscellaneous Resources 
Bethel Cemetery - Hand Springs   1870 Census Index - Colorado State Archives
Divorce Records - 1907 - 1919 - CO State Archives   1880 Census Images - US Census Project
Fort Lyon National Cemetery, Fort Lyon   Bent Colorado Migrations Project
Hight Cemetery, Prowers   Bent County - Political Graveyard
History of Bent County   Colorado Biography Project
Home Cemetery - South of Mc Clave   Colorado History - Google Books
Indian Rock Cemetery - High Rock   Colorado Tombstone Project
Las Animas Cemetery - Las Animas   Genealogy Forum
Little Kansas, Denny Lake   Linkpendium 
Obituary & Headstone Inscriptions - John M Johnson    
Powell Mortuary - Las Animas - 1896 - 1919   Query Search - Ancestry - Request Form
Powell Mortuary - Las Animas - 1910-1911    
Pruett Cemetery, Rock Canyon   Colorado Maps - 1885 - Bent County
Union Valley Cemetery - Hasty   Colorado Maps - 1885 - Eastern Half of the State
Wiley Cemetery, Wiley   Colorado Maps - 1885 - Western Half of the State
World War II Veterans Memorial   Search the Getty - Geographic Locator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This Site Updated: 01 June  2008

Martha A Crosley Graham

Bent County Coordinator

State Coordinator: Gail Meyer Kilgore 
Assistant State Coordinator: Ann Allen Geoghegan 
Assistant State Coordinator Sundee Maynez 
COGenWeb Archivests: Betty Baker
Tombstone Project Coordinator: Lee & Sandi Smith
Census Coordinator: Kathy Grace
Photo Project: Need Volunteer!
Deeds Project: Sundee Maynez