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Colorado Counties

Colorado currently has sixty-four counties. The Counties of Colorado are important components of government since the state has no secondary civil subdivisions such as townships. Two counties, the City and County of Denver and the City and County of Broomfield, have consolidated city and county governments.. No organized Counties of the District of Louisiana, the Territory of Missouri, or the Territory of Nebraska existed within the present boundaries of the State of Colorado.

Otero County, Colorado

Otero County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: La Junta
Year Organized: 1889
Square Miles: 1,263

Court House:

P.O. Box 511
County Courthouse
La Junta, CO 81050-0511

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Otero County is named in honor of Miguel A. Otero of the prominent Otero family of the Southwest.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Otero County was created in 1889 from part of Bent County.
In 1911 the north part of Otero was split off to form Crowley County.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,270 square miles (3,289 km²), of which, 1,263 square miles (3,271 km²) of it is land and 7 square miles (18 km²) of it (0.54%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Crowley County
Northeast: Kiowa County
East: Bent County
Southwest: Las Animas County
Northwest: Pueblo County

Cities and Towns:

- Cheraw	town	Incorporated Area
- Fowler	town	Incorporated Area
- La Junta (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Manzanola	town	Incorporated Area
- Rocky Ford	city	Incorporated Area
- Swink	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

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Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."