Welcome to Colfax ...

So far, we found very little information about Colfax. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Colfax to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Colfax - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Colfax, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Colfax , we believe that it would have been located within present day Custer County<2>.

Colfax was founded in 1870.

Time Zone: The area where Colfax was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Colfax was located: 719

Communities Also Named Colfax ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 32 communities that are also named Colfax - they are located in Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (7), Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan (3), Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania (2), Saskatchewan, Texas, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Colfax.

Adding Colfax to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Colfax was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Colfax post office opened in 1870.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Colfax.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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 Colfax, 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 Custer, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/