More notes on lines these pages already print.

Broomfield, the sixty-fourth county

The county table gives Broomfield a Created year of 2001 and a Parent cell naming four counties at once: Adams, Boulder, Jefferson, Weld, the only row in the table with four names in that column. A separate note in this wave covers the ten rows with exactly two parent names; Broomfield's four stand apart from that group entirely, in its own category of one.

Broomfield also has its own dedicated page, titled City and County of Broomfield, Colorado, far longer than the table's single row and carrying details the table has no column for at all.

November 15, 2001, and the number 64

The page's opening sentence states the date and the rank directly: On November 15, 2001, Broomfield became the 64th county in Colorado. It is located 20 miles northwest of Denver off U.S. 36, the Boulder Turnpike, in central Colorado. As a city, before that date, the page says Broomfield spanned 4 counties: Adams, Boulder, Jefferson and Weld, the same four names the table's Parent column lists in a different order.

64th is the word this page uses for Broomfield's place among Colorado's counties, a number the table itself does not state anywhere in its own rows. The table's own count of sixty-six rows, including the Unknown County row and the two dissolved rows covered elsewhere in this wave, is not the same count as this 64th-county ranking, and this note does not try to reconcile the two different kinds of count.

The table's sixty-six includes rows for land that no longer exists as a county, Greenwood and Platte among them, while a 64th-county ranking by definition counts only counties still standing on the day a new one is added. A table row and a ranking number are two different kinds of count built for two different purposes, and Broomfield's own page is the only place in this wave's reading where that distinction becomes visible, since the table never states its own row count as a ranking anywhere in its own text.

From railroad station to Turnpike Land Company

The page's history traces Broomfield to the 1880s, as a train station on the Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad, when the unorganized community was in Boulder County alone. The name Broomfield, the page says, came from the fields of broomcorn that grew in the area. It stayed a small farming community until the Turnpike Land Company began development in 1955, and the population grew from 125 in 1950 to over 6,000 in 1961, an eleven-year span the page states in those two round figures.

Three annexation years follow, each tied to a different parent county by the page's own wording: in 1969, parts of Jefferson County were annexed; in 1971, parts of Adams County; and in 1988 parts of Weld County were annexed. Boulder is not listed among these three annexation years, even though Boulder is one of the four counties named as Broomfield's pre-2001 span, since Broomfield's land started inside Boulder rather than being annexed into it later.

Nineteen years separate the earliest of these three annexation years, 1969, from the latest, 1988, and a further thirteen years separate 1988 from the county's own 2001 founding. The page lays out this growth as a steady widening of the same original Boulder-based community rather than a single sudden event, with Jefferson's land added first, Adams's land added two years later, and Weld's land arriving last, seventeen years after that, before the final step of countyhood itself in 2001.

Two histories, two authors, two libraries

The page names two published histories by title. A history of Broomfield, Gem of the Mountain Valley, was written in 1975 by Laura L. Spitler and Lou Walther, with copies at the Broomfield Mamie D. Eisenhower Public Library and the Carnegie Library in Boulder. A second history, Broomfield: Changes Through Time, was published in November 2001, the same month and year Broomfield itself became a county, and written by Silvia Pettem, covering the history of Broomfield from 1850 through 2001 according to the page's own description.

1850 is fifteen years earlier than any other date on this page, including the 1880s railroad-station origin the page gives for the community itself. The page does not say what Pettem's book places in Colorado in 1850, only that her book's coverage begins there, three decades before the page's own railroad-station story starts.

Two different libraries hold Spitler and Walther's book, one in Broomfield itself and one in neighboring Boulder, while the page does not name a holding library at all for Pettem's later book, only its publication date and its title. Twenty-six years separate the two books' publication dates, 1975 and 2001, roughly the same span the page elsewhere gives for Broomfield's population growth from a few hundred residents to a few thousand after the Turnpike Land Company's own 1955 arrival. Weld, one of Broomfield's own four parent counties, is also named repeatedly elsewhere in this wave's reading of the table, covered most fully in the note on Platte's reversion.

Two cemeteries, one coordinator problem

The page names two cemeteries directly: Lakeview Cemetery, incorporated in 1890 and still a working cemetery, and Commons Cemetery, opened in November 2003, both owned and operated by the City and County of Broomfield on the page's own account. Lakeview sits across from Broomfield High School on Eagle Way; Commons sits at East 9th Avenue and Sheridan Blvd, two specific intersections the page names for the two sites.

The page's closing section names a host: My name is Julie Miller, CG, and I am the volunteer coordinator for this site. The county table's own Coordinator cell for the Broomfield row reads OPEN FOR ADOPTION, the same mailto-link format covered elsewhere in this wave. One page names a coordinator by name and credential; the table, for the identical county, does not carry that same name anywhere in its own row.

CG, the credential printed after Julie Miller's name, is not explained anywhere else on the page, though it commonly stands for Certified Genealogist in the kind of research context this whole page is built for. No other page this wave has read gives any of its named coordinators a credential of that kind; Denise Wells, Bob Jenkins, and the rest of the table's repeat names carry no letters after their own names anywhere in the county table itself.

A postmaster list older than the county itself

Among the page's other sections, a Broomfield Postmasters list cites the Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 - September 30, 1971, National Archives microfilm M841, a date range that begins forty-eight years before the 1880s railroad-station story the page opens with and ends thirty years before Broomfield became a county in 2001. The range belongs to the National Archives' own record series, not to Broomfield specifically, and the page does not claim otherwise.

Named early pioneers on the same page include Brown, Coulson, Druella, listed as First Postmaster, Crooks, and Scheurn, five names with no further dates attached to any of them individually.

A record series that opens in 1832 and covers postmasters across the whole country, not a single Colorado community, is the kind of broad federal source this wave's county table never cites directly; the table's own Parent, Created, and Coordinator cells draw on a different, narrower kind of record than a national microfilm series spanning nearly a century and a half. Pairing the two source types on one page, a national postmaster-appointment record and five locally remembered pioneer names, is this page's own way of reaching back further than its own 1880s railroad-station story otherwise allows, using a federal record to cover a stretch of time the community's own local memory does not otherwise preserve by name.

Questions

How many counties did Broomfield's own territory span before becoming a county?

Four, by the page's own account: Adams, Boulder, Jefferson, and Weld, matching the table's Parent column.

Which three annexation years does the page give?

1969 for parts of Jefferson, 1971 for parts of Adams, and 1988 for parts of Weld. Boulder is not given an annexation year.

Does the Broomfield page name a coordinator?

Yes, Julie Miller, CG. The county table's own Coordinator cell for Broomfield reads OPEN FOR ADOPTION instead.