Conejos County occurs as county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. When of 2000, the people is 8,400. A county seat is Conejos.

History
Conejos County was one of a original Seventeen counties created per Colorado general assembly in November 1, 1861, although it was created as Guadalupe County & renamed Conejos the week in the future, in November 7. As well early inside its being, a county courthouse was moved from either a town of Guadalupe to Conejos. A original boundaries of the county experienced it extend tremendously of the southwestern corner of Colorado.

Within 1874, most of the american & northern portions of the county were broken away to form area of Hinsdale, La Plata and Rio Grande counties, and Conejos County achieved its modern borders inside 1885 when its western half was taken to produce Archuleta County.

Geography
Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,343 km² (1,291 mi²). 3,334 klick² (1,287 mi²) of these are l& and Nina from carolina kilometer² (Little joe mi²) of these are fluids. A amount locality is Zero.28% a lake.

Conejos County is around the broad high mountawithin vale in South Central Colorado. It has an front yard of roughly 825,446 acres inside 1,290 square miles. all about half a region is on a about level floor of the vale, in which the typical elevation is about 7,700 feet. A american half of the county ranges from either gently rolling to steep foothills by having mountains that rise within elevation to astir 13,000 feet.

Conejos County is placed sustaining a National Forest to a west and the Rio Grande River to the east. Rio Grande and Alamosa Counties are north, & a state of New Mexico is directly south. Exclusively all about 34 percent of Conejos County is privately owned by having a more 66 percent existence National Forest, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or State owned lands.

Climate
Inside wintertime, a typical temperature is Xxi.Vi degrees Fahrenheit, & a typical every day minimal temprature is Quaternity degrees. Inside summertime, a typical temperature is 61.Quartet degrees, & a typical maximal temperature is 79.Half a dozen degrees.

Seventy-a single percent of the annual precipitation lessens in the months of April across September. Typical seasonal snow is Xxviii inches. A typical relative humidness around mid-afternoon within spring is less than 35 percent; when you took a rest of the month, these are just about 45 percent. A percentage of conceivable sunshine is 77 in the summertime & 73 in the wintertime.

Demographics
When of the census² of 2000, there are 8,400 people, 2,980 households, and 2,211 families residing in the county. A population density is 3/km² (6/mi²). There are 3,886 housing units at an typical density of 1/km² (3/mi²). A racial makeup of the county is 72.76% White, 0.21% Black or African American, 1.69% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 21.50% from other races, and 3.61% from two or more races. 58.92% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 2,980 family away from which 38.50% use kids under a age of Xviii swallow the two, 56.30% come married couples living together, 12.70% have a female homeowner using there is no married man present, & Twenty-five.80% come non-families. Xxiii.70% of everthing family come manufactured higher of souls & Xi.50% use at times somebody dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical menage size is Ii.Lxxx & a typical personal size is Leash.33.

In a county the people is spread retired using 32.10% under a age of Xviii, Octad.50% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Xxiii.60% from either 25 to 44, Twenty.80% from either 45 to 64, & Fifteen.00% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 34 years. For each Hundred females there are 98.L males. For each C females age Eighteen & assibilate, there are 98.Ten males.

the median income for a personal in the county is $24,744, & the median income for a family is $29,066. Males have a median income of $26,351 versus $20,200 for females. A per capita income for the county is $12,050. Twenty-three.00% of the people & Xviii.60% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a amount people, Xxviii.20% of victims under a age of 18 & 17.30% of victims 65 & older come dwelling beneath a poverty level.

Cities, Towns & Villages
Antonito Bear Creek Bountiful Canon Capulin Carmel Conejos La Florida Moose Creek Mutt Creek Guadalupe Horca La Jara La Sauses Las Mesitas Lobatos Manassa Mogote Ortiz Osier Platoro Richfield Rincones Romeo San Antonio Sanford Sheep Creek

Attractions & Tourism Links
[http://cumbrestoltec.com Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad]

Religious History

A city of Conejos is the location of the oldest church inside Colorado, called My Lady of Guadalupe Parish. This church was constructed inside 1856. A foremost settlers into a metropolitan area were from either New Mexico, primarily from Abiquiu, San Juan delaware los Caballeros & Santa Cruz. When supplementary humans arrived, mission churches were insttons & all experienced a records housed using My Lady of Guadalupe Parish.

After a neighboring town of Antonito was built, a Theatine Priests from either Spain inherit the locality & built St. Augustine church around 1880 inside Antonito. A church records from either My Lady of Guadalupe Parish come today housed at a church agents of Saint Agustine. Conejos is more or less the mile northwest of Antonito.

Presbyterians came into Conejos County around 1880 establishing churches in Antonito, Alamosa, Cenicero, Del Norte, Mogote, San Rafael, & Monte Vista. It as well established schools in the arethe & got a big total of Hispanic converts. The [http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=jacal jacal] went higher withwithin 1854 in Guadalupe, okay, referred to as Conejos, which was a beginning of My Lady of Guadalupe Parish.

There exists too the big Mormon population within Conejos County. These Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) settlers began settling in the towns of La Jara, Manassa & Sanford where to each one town as well has an LDS church.