Colorado Databases - Chosse a link below to learn more about the stated records. These pages describes the type of records that can be found in Colorado research. Or you can go to a county page to learn about more localized records

• Colorado Census, 1885: On 1 June 1885 a special federal census of Colorado was taken. While the entire special census for this year included population, agricultural, manufacturing, and mortality schedules, this database only includes the population schedules.

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Colorado Maps (See Also Map Information for other States) - A. T. Andreas, An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Colorado (Chicago: the author, 1874) was the first county atlas of Colorado. It includes the county maps, cities and townships, illustrations of private homes and businesses in the state, portrait sketches of important citizens, and statistical information. The original atlas is quite scarce, with the only existing copies sometimes available through dealers of rare books. It has, however, been republished as Winona County Historical Society's Atlas of the State of Colorado, Andreas, 1874 (Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1976), providing an excellent genealogical reference tool. A companion to it is Paul J. Ostendorf's Every Person's Name Index to An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Colorado (Winona, Minn.: St. Mary's College, 1979).

County atlases for Colorado include maps for the respective county and for townships within that county. The names of property owners are frequently included on these maps. The Colorado Historical Society has microfilmed many of these atlases which makes them accessible on interlibrary loan.

Library of Congress Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress; Plans of North American Cities and Towns Produced by the Sanborn Map Company (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1981) states that the earliest map of this type for Colorado is for 1884. There is, however, a Sanborn map for the city of St. Paul for 1875; this map is located at the map library of the Colorado Historical Society.

The map collection of the Colorado Historical Society consists of over 35,000 individual maps and 1,300 atlases, the majority of these for Colorado and the Midwest. The society is a five-state, regional depository for the U.S. Geological Survey maps. They have extensive collections of Colorado territory and state maps, county and city maps, and fire insurance maps of over 950 Colorado towns and cities. There are random maps and plat maps in the county records at the Colorado Historical Society Research Center. The map library of the Wilson Library at the University of Colorado, Minneapolis, is an outstanding cartographic repository, not restricted to Colorado. It includes worldwide maps and associated material. For further information see the following references:

Upham, Warren. Colorado Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. 1920. Reprint. St. Paul, Minn.: Colorado Historical Society, 1969.
Treude, Mai. Windows to the Past: A Bibliography of Colorado County Atlases. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Colorado, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 1980.

The Colorado Department of Transportation, Room B-20, St. Paul, Colorado 55155, provides a series of current state, county, and city maps.

• Colorado Census Maps 1810 - 1930 - Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries.
• Colorado Co. Formation Maps 1801-Present - Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries
• Colorado D.O.T. Highway Maps
• Census Maps for all States - Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries
• County Maps for all States - Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries and State Department of Transportation Maps  
• Genealogy Atlas - Have images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897

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