Smoky Hill Trail stage stop called Middle Kiowa; Elbert County seat from 1874; incorporated Aug. 20, 1912. The 1875 and 1877 directories give its office as Running Creek P.O.
Today:Town of Kiowa
Where it was
USGS GNIS Populated Place 185146
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.
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