Rio Grande County, Colorado GenWeb

Rio Grande County, Colorado is located in south central Colorado, and is one of several counties in the San Luis Valley. It was created in 1874 from Costilla and Conejos counties the county seat is Del Norte. On March 27,1893 - Mineral County was created from Hinsdale, Rio Grande, and Saguache. Below is a map of the San Luis Valley area in 1887.

Towns in the county are Del Norte, Monte Vista, South Fork and Summitville. Jasper was a town in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but no longer exists.

Present day Colorado Counties Map.

The counties around Rio Grande are: To the North Saguache, to the East Alamosa, to the South Conejos, to the West is Mineral and to the South West over the continental divide is Archuletta.

Rio Grande is one of the six counties in the San Luis Valley, the other counties are Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, and Saguache. The San Luis Valley is surrounded by the Sangre De Cristo mountains on the East, and the San Juan Mountains on the West. The San Juan's are part of the Continental Divide.

The other Colorado County CoGen Websites can be reached here:
Colorado Counties Links
Colorado Clickable County Map
Colorado County Evolution
Colorado Places by County

Mailing List!

The Rootsweb list Coalamos is now being used as the San Luis Valley wide list. This list covers the six counties of the San Luis Valley; Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, and Saguache. This has been done so researchers can have one list for the San Luis Valley counties. Residents of the valley often lived in more than one county. You may post queries to this list, but also use the RootsWeb Message Boards for that county.

If you would be interested in joining this list, you may do so by sending a message with the word "subscribe", minus the quotes, in the body of the message to: COALAMOS-request@rootsweb.com.