Colorado

HISTORY

Richard Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 16,000 Evangelical and 3,500 Catholic Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Colorado. In 1970, descendants of the Germans from Russia were the second largest ethnic group in Colorado, exceeded only by Spanish-speaking people.

PRIMARY SETTLEMENT AREAS

Antlers
Brighton
Brush
Denver
Eaton
Fort Collins
Fort Morgan
Fruita
Globeville (Denver)
Greeley
Julesburg
Keensburg
Kirk
La Junta
Longmont
Loveland
Milliken
Montrose
Ordway
Ovid
Prospect Valley
Rocky Ford
Sedgwick
Severance
Sterling
Sugar City
Windsor

Sources

Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 112.

Tripp, Harley. History of the RMC (Rocky Mountain Conference).