Official Name: | Villa Grove, Colorado |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Colorado |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Saguache County and the state of Colorado |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Saguache County[1] |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1870[2] |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 38.2494°N -105.9497°W |
Elevation Ft: | 7983 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 81155 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 204776 |
Villa Grove is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The Villa Grove Post Office has the ZIP Code 81155.[3]
The town of Garibaldi was established by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1870.[2] The town served as the southern terminus of the Rio Grande's narrow-gauge Poncha Pass line from 1870 to 1890.[2] The town was named for Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.[2] The Garibaldi Post Office opened on June 13, 1870.[4] The town's name was changed to the less political Villa Grove on January 19, 1872.[4] The spelling of the town's name was changed to Villagrove on October 12, 1894, and back to Villa Grove on July 1, 1950.[4]