Colorado Census Holdings

Federal Censuses & Statewide Indexes

Year Census Index
1870 Film Book, CD
1870 African-American   CD
1880 Film CD, Book
1900 Film* Partial; see below
1920   Ancestry.com
1930   Ancestry.com
1930 Denver street index on microfilm  

* Includes Mesa (part), Mineral, Montezuma, Montrose, Moran, Otero, Ouray, Park, Phillips (part)

Colorado State Census 1885 (Call # Microfilm 142)

The federally sponsored state census includes: street name and number, name of each person in family, color, race, sex, age, month of birth if born within the census year, relation of each person to head of family, whether single, married, widowed/divorced, married during census year, profession, number of months unemployed during census year, sickness or disability, blind, deaf and dumb, idiotic, insane, crippled, attended school with census year cannot read/write, place of birth (state or country), place of birth of mother and father.

Includes population, Agricultural, Manufacturing & Mortality schedules.

By County:

Reel # 1 Arapaho, Chinese in Denver
Reel # 2 Archuleta, Bent, Boulder, Chaffee, Clear Creek
Reel # 3 Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Delta, Dolores, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert
Reel # 4 El Paso, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano
Reel # 5 Jefferson, Lake, La Plata
Reel # 6 Larimer, Las Animas, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray
Reel # 7 Park, Pitkin, Peublo, Rio Grande, Routt
Reel # 8 Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Summit, Weld

 

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