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Alamosa is a home rule municipality and the county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. [9] [10] The city population was 9,806 in the 2020 United States Census. [11] The city is the commercial center of the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado, and is the home of Adams State University .
Alamosa County. / 37.57°N 105.78°W / 37.57; -105.78. Alamosa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,376. [1] The county seat is Alamosa. [2] The county name is the Spanish language word for a grove of cottonwood trees .
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is located in Saguache and Alamosa Counties, Colorado at approximately 37.75° north latitude and 105.5° west longitude. The national park is located in the San Luis Valley while the national preserve is located to the east in an adjacent section of the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains . [5]
History. Adams State was founded in 1921 as a teacher's college. Billy Adams, a Colorado legislator who would later become a three-term governor of Colorado, worked for three decades before obtaining the authorization to found Adams State Normal School in 1921, to provide higher education opportunities for teachers from remote and rural areas of Colorado, such as the San Luis Valley, and see ...
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Added to NRHP. April 22, 2003. The St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Alamosa, Colorado is a historic Mission Revival -style church at 607 Fourth Street. It was built in 1926 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1] A church was built on the site in 1882, but was demolished in 1930 when a sanctuary addition was created.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Alamosa County, Colorado. Coordinates: 37.5728°N 105.7884°W. Location of Alamosa County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alamosa County, Colorado . This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register ...
The Los Caminos Antiguos Scenic and Historic Byway is a 129-mile (208 km) Back Country Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Alamosa, Conejos, and Costilla counties, Colorado, USA. The byway explores the historic San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado including Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve; the Old Spanish ...