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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 .
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 ...
Route description. US 285 southbound past its northern terminus at I-25/US 87 and SH 30 in Denver. Heading north from the Colorado border, US 285 passes through the main part of the San Luis Valley, eventually reaching Alamosa. As the highway heads north, it begins to ascend to the northern end of the valley and eventually climbs over Poncha ...
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 ...
The U.S. State of Colorado has 273 active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. [1] [2] At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) lived in one of the 271 municipalities active at the time.
San Luis Valley Regional Airport ( IATA: ALS, ICAO: KALS, FAA LID: ALS) (Bergman Field) is two miles south of Alamosa, in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. [1] It sees one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport reached 10,000 enplanements for the first time in its EAS participation with Boutique Air and is ...
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 ...