Official Name: | Weston, Colorado |
Settlement Type: | Census Designated Place |
Pushpin Map: | USA |
Pushpin Label: | Weston |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Weston CDP in the |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Las Animas County |
Government Type: | unincorporated town |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 8.026 |
Area Land Km2: | 8.026 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.000 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 53 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 37.1486°N -104.8736°W |
Elevation Ft: | 7067 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code[3] |
Postal Code: | 81091 |
Area Code: | 719 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 2583316 |
Weston is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The Weston post office has the ZIP Code 81091.[3] At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Weston CDP was 53.
The Weston Post Office has been in operation since 1889.[4] The community was named after A. J. Weston, a local pioneer.[5]
There is an old church at Vigil Plaza, near Weston.
There is a different old church dating from 1866 or 1867, and a cemetery, about three miles east, at Medina Plaza. These were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019 as Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery.
Weston sits in the valley of the Purgatoire River, on the north side of the river, near where the South Fork joins the main stem. Colorado State Highway 12 passes through the community, leading east (downriver) to Trinidad, the county seat, and west to Stonewall Gap.
The Weston CDP has an area of 8.026km2, all land.[1]
The United States Census Bureau initially defined the for the