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* Conejos County, Colorado-west
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This species has been recorded from Orange County, California, near Westminster ; near a fish farm in Conejos County and the South Platte drainage, Colorado ; several counties in Florida ; Hawaii ; an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe, Louisiana ; Beaverhead Rock Pond ( Madison County ), Montana ; Clark County, Nevada ; and Texas.
Conejos County was one of the original 17 counties created by the General Assembly of the Territory of Colorado on 1861-11-01, although it was originally named Guadalupe County and renamed Conejos County a week later, on November 7.
In 1874, most of the western and northern portions of the county were broken away to form parts of Hinsdale, La Plata and Rio Grande counties, and Conejos County achieved its modern borders in 1885 when its western half was taken to create Archuleta County.
Presbyterians came into Conejos County in 1880 establishing churches in Antonito, Alamosa, Cenicero, Del Norte, Mogote, San Rafael, and Monte Vista.
Websites that will be of use when doing genealogical research are The Colorado Genealogical Society and Conejos County WW II Enlistments.
Conejos County is situated with the National Forest to the west and the Rio Grande River to the east, along Colorado's southern border with the state of New Mexico.
Only about 34 percent of Conejos County is privately owned with the other 66 percent being National Forest, Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) or State owned lands.
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