Welcome!

---

COGenWeb Special Projects are curated collections of facts related to focused topics about Colorado.

This site is a free genealogical site about the history of Colorado. We hope you find helpful clues for your research of Colorado ancestors.

Books

There are so many BOOKS and yearbooks about the history of Colorado and the Counties of Colorado.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal program aimed at reducing unemployment among young men by giving them steady work improving the nation's landscape, public lands, and infrastructure.

Colorado Places

These pages provide a directory to Colorado place names and show the county in which that place exists or existed. We have attempted to include every settlement, trading post, military post, mining camp, ghost town, stage station, railroad stop, post office, rural community, town and city from the earliest known into the present.

County Evolution

The following maps trace Colorado from just before the Colorado Territory was created through today, showing the evolution of the county borders County Evolution

Colorado Maps

Maps of Colorado.

Colorado Military

Colorado residents throughout the past 200 years of war. From the Revolutionary War to current events.

Ute Indians

The Ute people are the oldest residents of Colorado, inhabiting the mountains and vast areas of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Eastern Nevada, Northern New Mexico and Arizona. According to tribal history handed down from generation to generation, our people lived here since the beginning of time. Click HERE for more history about the UTE Indians and other Indian history.

What's New

at COGenWeb Special Projects since your last visit

• Search COGenWeb Special Projects for a specific name

Please consider contributing your pieces of Colorado family history. Corrections, updates, and additions to this site are always welcome. Our combined efforts can make this a great site for all who visit!

• March 2026 - NEW!! - Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) area that provided jobs to men during 1933 - 1942. See if you ancestor was part of this great program.
  [Note: my father found work with the CCC for several years before joining the US Army]
• Feb 2026 - Added Section for the Ute Indians. The Ute Indians were not the only Indians in the area, but focus is on those that exited as the new imigrants moved in. [Again, a few of my ancestors moved to the Western Colorado area in 1885. Seek the 1885 Census].
• Feb 2026 - Something NEW!! CRIME SCRAPBOOKS! This is interesting!
  (**Caution. The material in these ledgers may include graphic imagery and historically offensive language.**)

 Special Projects Coordinator: Betty Baker

---