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Pages in category "Transportation in Kiowa County, Colorado" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... U.S. Route 385 in Colorado
The Colorado Department of Transportation purchased the line from UP in 1998 for $10.2 million in hopes of finding a short-line operator to serve farmers and others in small towns along the route. [4] In 2000, CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. [5]
Eads has been the seat of Kiowa County since 1901. [3] Eads was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis in 1874 and went on to design and build the system of levees on the Mississippi Delta which made the river ...
Colorado Central Railroad: Colorado Railroad: 1938 1957 N/A Colorado Railroad: CB&Q: 1906 1930 Colorado and Southern Railway: Colorado Railway: DRGW: 1883 1888 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad: Colorado Central Railroad: CB&Q: 1869 1890 Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway: Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad: CB&Q: 1866 1869 Colorado Central ...
Kiowa County was established in 1889, taking its name from the Kiowa Indians who lived in eastern Colorado before the Europeans arrived. Sheridan Lake was the county seat of Kiowa County and was not at first a stop on the railroad line; only after local citizens built a railroad depot and turned it over to the Missouri Pacific did the railroad ...
English: Entering Kiowa County from the north on U.S. Route 287. Date: 30 August 2013: Source: Own work: Author: ... View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap
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Colorado Pacific Railroad in Sheridan Lake. Sheridan Lake is located in eastern Kiowa County at (38.468274, -102.293155 U.S. Route 385 passes through the town, leading north 27 miles (43 km) to Cheyenne Wells and south 28 miles (45 km) to Granada.