Snyder, Colorado

Snyder is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Morgan County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Fort Morgan, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Snyder post office has the ZIP Code 80750.^[4] As of the 2020 census, the population of the Snyder CDP was 136.^[3]

History

The town is named after John Wesley Snyder (1837-1922), a pioneer rancher.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Snyder is in eastern Morgan County, on the north side of the valley of the South Platte River. It is 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Fort Morgan, the county seat. Colorado State Highway 71 passes through the community, leading south 6 miles (10 km) to Brush and north 67 miles (108 km) to Kimball, Nebraska.

The Snyder CDP has an area of 227 acres (0.917 km²), all land.^[2]

1 2 3U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Snyder, Colorado
1 2"2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Colorado". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
1 2"P1. Race – Snyder CDP, Colorado: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
1 2"Look Up a ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
↑Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 47.
↑Lewis Atherton, The Cattle Kings. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press 1972.
↑Atherton, Lewis (January 1, 1972). The Cattle Kings. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803257597.