Its Register listings are the Stolte House and the Surface Creek Livestock Company Silos. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1965 on, and the census since 1910.
Founding year: the first Cedaredge post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Cedaredge’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cedaredge is more historic than 57% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Cedaredge’s overall grade.
Few Colorado towns list much on the Register (a typical Colorado town has 1.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Cedaredge’s 8.3 sits above most of its state (70% of Colorado towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.7 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Cedaredge’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Up until 1880 much of central and western Colorado was inhabited by the Ute Indians. Under the Act of June 15, 1880, the Utes ceded a large portion of their land to the United States, including the Surface Creek Valley. On September 1, 1881, the last band of Utes made their exodus from western Colorado to the northeastern part of Utah under escort of troops from Fort Crawford. Settlers soon began arriving, building homesteads, barns, businesses, and ranches. Much of the land was carved up into cattle ranches, fruit orchards, and fields of alfalfa and grass, but the most successful business is cattle ranching to the west of the town.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Cedaredge, census by census
Grew from 295 people in 1910 to 2,279 in 2020, 7 times over.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cedaredge’s Wikipedia page.
Questions about Cedaredge’s history
What year was Cedaredge founded?
The Cedaredge post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Cedaredge rank for history?
Cedaredge is more historic than 57% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Cedaredge?
Two places: the Stolte House (listed 1997) and the Surface Creek Livestock Company Silos (2000).
How old are the homes in Cedaredge?
16% of Cedaredge’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.7 points), against a typical 2.5% for a Colorado town; the median home was built in 1980.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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