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 MIGRATIONS
This is the Bent County page linking to the Colorado Migrations Project. The
purpose of this project is to catalog migrations into and out of each
Colorado county. If you have ancestors who lived in Bent County and know
when and where they either migrated to or from Bent County, click on the
submit button below, so that your information may be added to these pages.
For more information about this project visit the state site at :
COLORADO MIGRATIONS PROJECT
Where were
your Bent County ancestors born?
Where did they live prior to coming to Bent county?
When did they come?
If they left Bent County, where did they go?
When did they leave?
There are a couple of guidelines for submission to this
site:
1. Bent County was established as Greenwood County in
1870, it was renamed Bent in 1874. Over the years Bent County was divided
into several different counties. The "Date to Bent County" should be the
date that the person moved into the area that is now Bent County; for help
on boundaries go to
http://www.usgwarchives.org/co/bent.htm
2. Please submit only the oldest of a family that
immigrated.
Information contained in these pages remains the sole property of the
submitter. It is always best to check the validity of submitted information
with your own research.
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contents, except where otherwise noted on the page, are copyrighted ©
2008, by This county is up for adoption, please volunteer to be
Coordinator, and may not be copied, altered, converted nor uploaded to
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the author of this site, namely: The COGenWeb and/or Martha A Crosley
Graham, Bent County Coordinator
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This Site Created: 31 May 2008
Bent County Coordinator
