Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1906 - Geology |
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altitude Animas County Arkansas River Atlas sheet Boulder County branch of South Chaffee County Clear Creek County Colorado and Southern Colorado Springs County on Atchison County on Burlington County on Colorado County on Denver County on Union county seat Denver and Rio Eagle County east feet Fremont County Garfield County Gilpin County Grand County Grand River Gunnison County Hinsdale County Huerfano County Jefferson County La Plata County Lake County Larimer County Las Animas County Leadville left-hand branch Mesa County Montezuma County Needle Mountains Ouray County Park County Paso Pikes Peak Pitkin County Plata County population in 1900 post town post village Pueblo County right-hand branch Rio Blanco County Rio Grande Railroad Routt County Saguache County San Juan County San Juan Mountains San Miguel County Santa Fe Railway Silverton South Platte River Southern Railway Summit County Teller County Telluride Topeka and Santa tributary to Arkansas tributary to South valley Weld County
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Page 177 - Ijikewood and Golden Railroad. Weld; county in the extreme northern part of the State; bounded on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Logan and Morgan counties, on the south by Adams County, and on the west by Boulder and Larimer counties. Its surface consists of rolling plains. The area is 3,918 square miles, of which 10 per cent, or 251,307 acres, were under cultivation in 1900. The population in 1900 was 16,808; and of Greeley, the county seat, 3,023. In 1900 the average magnetic...
Page 117 - The area embraced forms nearly a square, containing about 106,475 square miles or 67,420,000 acres — a greater extent of country than 'all of Great Britain, with 'a colony or two included, and quite as large as New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, with New Jersey thrown in for good measure.
Page 101 - County, on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio Grande railroads; altitude, 6,657 feet Castle Rock.
Page 56 - SHELBY, a county in the western part of the state, bounded on the north by Allen and Mercer, east by Logan and Champaign, south by Miami, and west by Dark and Mercer counties.