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Website. www .prowerscounty .net. Prowers County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,999. [1] The county seat is Lamar. [2] The county is named in honor of John Wesley Prowers, a leading pioneer in the lower Arkansas River valley region.
Prowers County, named for one of Colorado's prominent early ranchers, is located along the Arkansas River in southeast Colorado. Prowers County covers 1,644 square miles of the Great Plains and Arkansas River valley in southeastern Colorado. The rectangular county is bordered to the north by Kiowa County, to the east by the state of Kansas, to ...
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Prowers County, Colorado. Prowers County, named for prominent pioneer John W. Prowers, is on Colorado’s southeast border with Kansas. The 2013 population estimate was 12,291. The county seat is Lamar, which has the rare distinction of being one of only three locations in the United States that is antipodal, or globally opposite another ...
Contact Us Prowers County Colorado 301 South Main Street, Suite 215 Lamar, CO 81052
Prowers County Welfare Housing. The five-building Prowers County Welfare Housing complex on the north side of Lamar was built in 1938–41 as a series of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. The one-story sandstone buildings were the only New Deal public housing complex constructed in eastern Colorado.
Prowers County was formed in 1889 and named after the first rancher in the area, John Wesley Prowers. His wife was a Cheyenne princess, Amache Ochinee, after whom a local World War II era Japanese internment camp was later named. The community of Lamar, now the county seat, has a colorful history that began with a hijacking in May of 1886.
