Welcome to Animas City ...
So far, we have found very little information about Animas City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Animas City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Animas City - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Animas City, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Animas City<3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day La Plata County<2>.
Time Zone: The area where Animas City was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time
The location where Animas City once stood is in the (970) area code.
Adding Animas City to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Animas City in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
In addition, our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Animas City was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
We also found Animas City in the The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (Second Edition).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Animas City on our Genealogy Page.
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us/
The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Animas City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Colorado's counties, including La Plata, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Animas City may originally have been Anima's City. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Animas City might be written as Anima City. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Animas City. |