Colorado Census Records Online includes Federal and State censuses. Census records (especially when indexed) are one of the easiest ways to find family members and track individuals over their lifetime.
US Census Records
In the United States, federal censuses are taken every 10 years and these records are made public 72 after the census is taken. US Censuses began in 1790 and the most recent census available is the 1950 census. Most of the 1890 census was destroyed by fire, but parts remain and you can use other records as census substitutes.
HINT: You can look at federal (1870-1920) census records to see if your ancestor was naturalized and if they were, visit Colorado Naturalization Records online.
HINT: Between 1790 and 1840, only the head of household is named in the census.
HINT: Between 1850 and present, all people living in a household are named in the census.
HINT: Between 1850 and 1880 there are census mortality schedules listing who died in the year before the census was taken.
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Colorado Census Records online at the federal level
US – 1800 – United States Census, 1800, index & images, at FS
US – 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images, at FS
US – 1848 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
US – 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS
US – 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS
US – 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images, at FS
US – 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images, at FS
US – 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images, at FS
US – 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images, at FS
US – 1885 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images, at FS
US – 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images, at FS
US – 1908 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images, at FS
US – 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images, at FS
US – 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index, at FS
US – 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images, at FS
US – 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images, at FS
Colorado Census Records online at the state level
Colorado – 1870 – 1870 Colorado Territory census index, at FS
Colorado – 1870 – Colorado, 1870 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1870 – Dodd, Hance H. – Dodd pension applications-1870 census, Montgomery Co., TN, at FS
Colorado – 1880 – Colorado, 1880 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1885 – Colorado census 1885, at FS
Colorado – 1885 – Colorado state census, 1885, at FS
Colorado – 1885 – Colorado state census, 1885, at FS
Colorado – 1885 – Colorado State Census, 1885, index & images
Colorado – 1885 – Schedules of the Colorado state census of 1885 : 1885, at FS
Colorado – 1900 – Colorado, 1900 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1900 – Colorado, 1900 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1904 – Indian census rolls, Fort Lewis, 1904-1908, at FS
Colorado – 1910 – Colorado, 1910 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1920 – Colorado, 1920 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1923 – Indian census rolls, Consolidated Ute, 1923-1939, at FS
Colorado – 1930 – Colorado, 1930 federal census, at FS
Colorado – 1940 – Colorado, 1940 population census, at FS
Colorado Census Records online at the county level
Archuleta County – Census – 1885 – Archuleta County Records, at FS
Conejos County – Census – 1880 – Archuleta County Records, at FS
Dolores County – Census – 1885 – The 1885 Census of Dolores County, Colorado (Dolores County’s First Census), at FS
Huerfano County – Census – Huerfano County Census Records, at KMW
Larimer County – Census Records – 1885 State Census, Larimer County, Colorado, at LCGS
Las Animas County – Census – Las Animas County 1870 Census Records, at KMW
Pueblo County – Census – Pueblo County Census Records, at KMW
Taos County – Census – Taos County NM Census Records, at KMW
Weld County – Census – 1910 – Weld County, Colorado, Index to Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, at FS
Colorado Census Records online at the city level
Gold Hill – Census – 1860 – [1860 and 1870 Census of Nebraska] : [McKinney Family Information], at FS
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