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Seventeen counties in September 1861

The front page has a section headed Formation of the State of Colorado. It gives a year for Jefferson Territory, a date for recognition of the Territory of Colorado, a month for the first seventeen counties, and a date for statehood. The note on the front page quotes the title and the footer. This note quotes the formation paragraphs.

1859, and 28 February 1861

The first sentence says Jefferson Territory was voted by the residents in 1859 but was never recognized by Congress. It does not name a month in 1859. It does not name the residents.

The next clause says some of the counties have organization dates and records prior to 28 February 1861, when the Territory of Colorado was finally recognized. The day is written 28 February, not February 28. The year is 1861.

The page uses that date as a boundary. Records can sit before it, the sentence says, because Jefferson Territory was not recognized. The sentence does not list those earlier records.

The year 1859 stands without a month. 28 February 1861 is the first full date in the section. Recognition is the verb the page uses for the Territory of Colorado.

28 February 1861 is the recognition date in this paragraph. It is not the statehood date. Statehood is a later paragraph on the same page. The note on the county table has created-years from a different page, including 1861 on some rows.

The seventeen names

The first territorial assembly created the first seventeen counties in September 1861. The month has no day number. The page then names them: Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Costilla, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Guadalupe (later named Conejos), Huerfano, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Park, Pueblo, Summit and Weld.

Guadalupe is in the list, with the parenthesis later named Conejos. Conejos is not given as a separate eighteenth name. The word later is inside the parenthesis.

Summit and Weld are joined by and, without a comma before and. The others are separated by commas. Seventeen is the page's own count of that list.

Larimer is one of the seventeen. The note on the Larimer page quotes Est. 1861 from that county's own heading. The front page puts Larimer in the September 1861 list. The two lines are on two pages.

Counting Guadalupe and Conejos as one parenthesis is how the page reaches seventeen. The select on the same page is a longer inventory and includes later counties. Conejos is the later name of Guadalupe. The two lines stay on their own pages.

August 1, 1876

On August 1, 1876, the page says, Colorado became the 38th state in the Union. The parenthesis says 28 days after the Centennial of the United States and 15 years after the territory was first formed. The day is August 1, with a comma before the year.

The nickname in that sentence is The Centennial State. The page also says Colorado is known as Colorful Colorado and The Heart of the Rockies. Those three names are in the same paragraph. They are printed as nicknames, not as page titles.

15 years after the territory was first formed points back to 1861, which is the recognition year in the earlier paragraph. The page does the subtraction in the words 15 years. It does not reprint 1861 inside the 1876 sentence.

38th is written with the letters th. The Centennial of the United States is the phrase in the parenthesis, not a second nickname. The Centennial State is the nickname.

Colorful Colorado and The Heart of the Rockies sit in the same paragraph. 28 days and 15 years are both inside the parenthesis. The page does not print a second statehood date.

The rectangle

The next paragraph says the boundary lines create an almost perfect rectangle, measuring approximately 387 miles from east to west and 276 miles from north to south, covering 104,247 square miles, including 450 square miles of bodies of water. Approximately and almost are both in the paragraph. The comma in 104,247 is printed.

Colorado is the eighth largest state when measured in square miles area. That is the page's wording, including the word area at the end. The paragraph does not give a rank by population.

A link under the paragraph reads More Colorado history here and points at history.html. This note quotes the paragraphs that are already on the front page. It does not add a chapter from history.html.

387 and 276 are miles. 104,247 and 450 are square miles. The Adams page has a different pair, 18 miles by 72 miles, for that county alone. The note on Adams keeps those county miles on the Adams page.

Approximately applies to the miles. Almost applies to the rectangle. The comma in 104,247 is a thousands separator. The sentence says the 450 square miles of water are included.

Where the sentences stop

The formation section does not name a hotel, a bird, or a coordinator. The bird is in the sidebar. The coordinators are in tables elsewhere. The seventeen names are counties of 1861, not the full select list on the same front page.

The select includes later names such as Broomfield, Adams, and Denver, which are not in the seventeen. The seventeen include Guadalupe, which the select does not spell. The select spells Conejos. The parenthesis on the front page is the bridge the page itself prints.

September 1861 has no day. 28 February 1861 has a day and a month in that order. August 1, 1876 has a month, a day, and a year. Three dates, three forms.

The resources paragraph after the history is about the site directory and research.html. It is not a fourth date. The footer date June 25, 2019 is not one of these historical dates.

September 1861 names a month and a year. 28 February 1861 puts the day first. August 1, 1876 puts the month first. The seventeen names sit between February and August.

Questions

When does the page say the Territory of Colorado was recognized?

28 February 1861. Jefferson Territory, the sentence before it, was voted in 1859 and was never recognized by Congress.

How many counties does the September 1861 sentence name?

Seventeen, from Arapahoe through Weld, with Guadalupe later named Conejos inside the list.

What nicknames does the 1876 paragraph print?

The Centennial State, Colorful Colorado, and The Heart of the Rockies. The date in that paragraph is August 1, 1876.