The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusGarfield is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population of the Garfield CDP was 27 at the United States Census 2020. The Salida post office (ZIP Code 81201) serves the area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 15 to 27 (+80%). Half of its homes were built before 1959.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Garfield yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Garfield’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Garfield’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Garfield, decade by decade
2000
1 historic place in Garfield
1 place in Garfield is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.