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History · Vona

Vona’s post office opened in 1889, and 51% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Spring Creek Bridge. Below: maps from 1979 on and the census since 1920.

1889first post office
1on the National Register
51%homes built before 1940
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How Vona began

When was Vona founded?

1889

The Vona post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 268 in 19202020 census: 95137 years
Founding year: the first Vona post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Vona’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Vona are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Vona’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vona’s history is told.

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The story

How Vona came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Vona.

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Vona was named after Vona, the niece of an attorney from Burlington by the name of Pearl S. King. In 1936, a fire destroyed half of Vona's business district.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Vona, decade by decade

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Vona, Colorado2019Vona, ColoradoVona, Colorado rail transport and grain storage2019Vona, Colorado rail transport and grain storageSpring Creek Bridge2019Spring Creek BridgeVona, Colorado2013Vona, ColoradoCOMap-doton-Vona2005COMap-doton-Vona
On the map

Vona on the map, 1979 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Vona. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Vona on the 1979 USGS mapVona on the 1981 USGS map1979Vona sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Vona.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Vona

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2002
Spring Creek Bridge
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Concrete slab1
Spring Creek BridgeConcrete slab

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Vona, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 268

Between 94 and 268 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Vona’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Vona’s history

What year was Vona founded?

The Vona post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Vona?

One place: the Spring Creek Bridge (listed 2002).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.