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1969 Map of Colorado City

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Colorado City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Colorado City is depicted here during a transformative period of planned development in Southern Colorado. The street grid reflects an ambitious master-planned community, with residential boulevards like Cuerno Verde Blvd and Brothers Blvd radiating outward from central recreation hubs. The landscape is anchored by Beckwith Reservoir and Greenhorn Meadows Park, which serve as the community's core along the banks of Greenhorn Creek.

South of the developing townsite, the terrain descends into the dramatic Graneros Gorge. This 1969 survey, with its 1975 revisions, documents the early infrastructure that connected this remote settlement to the wider region, including the Colorado City Interchange and Graneros Road Interchange. Evidence of the area's agricultural and rural roots remains visible in features such as the Rodeo Ground, scattered Gravel Pit sites, and isolated water sources like Walters Spring near the border of Pueblo and Huerfano Counties.