Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Bent's Old Fort, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bent's Old Fort and the surrounding area.
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Otero County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Otero County
Communities Also Named Bent's Old Fort ...
We found one communities that share the name Bent's Old Fort.
Within Colorado, the name Bent's Old Fort is unique.
Beyond Colorado, there is another community also named Bent's Old Fort in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Bent's Old Fort #
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bent's Old Fort.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Bent's Old Fort could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |