More notes on lines these pages already print.
Fremont and El Paso, two years the seventeen don't give
The front page names Fremont and El Paso among the first seventeen counties, created, in its own wording, in September 1861. The county table gives both of those same two names a Parent cell reading Original County, matching the other sixteen. Their Created-column years do not match 1861 at all: Fremont's is 1859, El Paso's is 1874.
A separate note in this wave covers the table's eighteenth Original County row, LaPlata, which the front page never names. This note covers a different kind of gap: two names the front page does give, whose own table years disagree with the year the front page puts them in.
Fremont's 1859, two years early
1859 is also the year the front page's own formation section opens with, in a different sentence: Jefferson Territory was voted by the residents in 1859 but was never recognized by Congress. The table does not explain whether Fremont's 1859 Created year refers to that unrecognized Jefferson Territory period, to something else entirely, or to a simple transcription of a different source's date than the one behind the other sixteen 1861 rows.
Canon City is Fremont's County Seat in the table. The coordinator cell is a mailto to ladyaudris@earthlink.net with the subject line Fremont County Adoption, and the visible text is OPEN FOR ADOPTION, the same mailto-link mechanism a separate note in this wave looks at for two counties that are not open, addressed to the same mailbox this open row also uses.
Whatever 1859 refers to, it is not September 1861, the month and year the front page's own sentence uses for Fremont specifically, alongside the other sixteen names in that same list. No third date for Fremont appears anywhere else in the table to help decide between the two.
El Paso's 1874, thirteen years late
El Paso's table row gives 1874, not 1861, a gap of thirteen years in the other direction from Fremont's two-year shortfall, the widest gap from 1861 found anywhere among the eighteen Original County rows checked for this wave. Colorado Springs is the County Seat. The coordinator is Colleen Pustola, by mailto to ladyaudris@earthlink.net with the subject El Paso%20County, the percent-encoding printed literally in the page's own markup rather than resolved to a plain space in the visible subject line a mail client would eventually show.
Thirteen years is a long enough gap that it cannot easily be read as a simple transcription slip the way a single-digit error might be. The table gives no alternative year for El Paso anywhere else, and no note explaining what distinguishes 1874 from the 1861 the front page's own sentence uses for the same name.
A thirteen-year gap also means 1874 lands squarely inside the same year this wave's notes on Greenwood's dissolution and Platte's reversion already use for two entirely different events. Whether El Paso's row and those two dissolved-county rows share any real historical connection is not something either page states; the table simply repeats the same four digits across three unrelated rows, once for a county's own founding and twice for a county's own ending.
A county whose name recurs across this whole wave
El Paso's name recurs outside its own row as well. Colleen Pustola, its named coordinator, also coordinates Morgan, a second row this wave's note on her two mailto subjects covers in full, with its own distinct subject-line formatting for each of the two counties she holds. 1874, El Paso's own Created year, is also Bent's and Elbert's shared year from Greenwood's dissolution, and separately Platte's own dissolution year, the same repeated number this wave's notes on those two rows already use.
None of these recurrences ties El Paso's own history to Greenwood's, Platte's, or Morgan's in the table's own text. The year and the coordinator simply repeat across rows the table never links to one another directly, leaving the pattern visible only to a reader checking every row against every other, one cell at a time.
1874 is a year this wave has already met twice elsewhere: it is Bent's and Elbert's shared Created year in the note on Greenwood's dissolution, and it is Platte's own dissolution year in the Platte note. El Paso's 1874 is not connected to either of those in the table's own text; the year simply recurs a third time, in a third unrelated row.
Two years, two different directions from 1861
Fremont's year sits before 1861. El Paso's sits after it. Both rows carry the identical two-word Parent label, Original County, that every other 1861 row carries. The label does not vary by how far a year sits from 1861, in either direction; it is printed the same regardless of whether the gap is two years or thirteen, with no modifier distinguishing a near miss from a wide one, and no asterisk or footnote attached to either row.
No third county among the eighteen Original County rows carries a year this far from 1861 in either direction. The other fifteen, once LaPlata and these two are set aside, all read 1861 exactly, making Fremont and El Paso the two clear outliers inside a label meant to mark a single shared founding year, out of eighteen rows carrying that same label.
| County | Front page's year (shared) | Table's own Created year |
|---|---|---|
| Larimer | September 1861 | 1861 |
| Fremont | September 1861 | 1859 |
| El Paso | September 1861 | 1874 |
What this does and does not show about the table
It does not show that the table is wrong about Fremont or El Paso, or that the front page is wrong about naming them among the seventeen. It shows that the two pages, read against each other, give three different years for events both pages treat as settled fact: 1861 on the front page for all seventeen alike, and 1859 or 1874 on the table for two of those same seventeen specifically, with no note on either page reconciling the difference, and no indication either page was written with the other's wording in view at the time it was last edited.
Both pages are, on their own separate terms, internally consistent: the front page names its seventeen once and does not revisit the list elsewhere, and the table states a Created year once per row without a second, corrective pass through its own sixty-six rows. The disagreement only becomes visible by reading both pages together and lining up the same seventeen names twice, once against each page's own account, which is exactly what this note has done for Fremont and El Paso specifically.
Larimer, by contrast, matches cleanly: the front page's September 1861 and the table's own 1861 agree, the same consistency wave one's front-page note and the table both support for that one name. Fremont and El Paso are the two names in the seventeen where that consistency breaks, out of seventeen names checked.
Questions
Which two of the front page's seventeen counties have table years outside 1861?
Fremont, at 1859, and El Paso, at 1874. Every other named county the two pages were checked against gives 1861 on both pages.
Does the table explain either gap?
No. Both rows simply state Original County and the year, with no note addressing the difference from the front page's September 1861.
Are Fremont and El Paso currently open for a coordinator?
Fremont's row reads OPEN FOR ADOPTION. El Paso's names Colleen Pustola, the same coordinator covered in the note on her two mailto subjects.