Crowley, Colorado
Formerly Crowley High School, now the Crowley Heritage Center and Museum
The town of Crowley is located in the eastern plains of Colorado, north of the Arkansas River. Crowley was founded back in the early 1900's as an agricultural center. The Colorado Canal brought water and the railroad brought cheap transportation. The combination brought relative prosperity to the farmers and ranchers around Crowley, until the dry years of the late 1920's, and then the Dust Bowl and Great Depression of the 1930's. But National Sugar had their factory about 10 miles east of Crowley and National Sugar bought nearly every sugar beet the farms around Crowley could produce until the independent company went under in the collapsing/manipulated commodity markets of 1967. There are still quite a few active farms and ranches nearby but most of the retail business goes to La Junta, Rocky Ford and Pueblo.
The Crowley Post Office
In downtown Crowley
This former school looks like its becoming condos
Crowley's biggest church
Latitude: 38.1936°N
Longitude: 103.8578°W
Incorporated: October 10, 1921
Elevation: 4,354'
Education:
High School or Higher: 69.1%
Bachelor's Degree or Higher: 7.3%
2011 Cost of Living Index for Crowley: 89.8
Median Resident Age: 40.1 Years
Estimated Median Household Income: $30,300
Estimated Median Home Value: $36,880
Major Industries:
Government, Social Services, Transportation Services, Health Care, Food Services, Agriculture, Retail Services
Unemployed (March 2011): 11.1%
Population Demographics: 2010
| Total Population | 176 |
| Males | 82 |
| Females | 94 |
| Population by Age | |
| Under 18 | 37 |
| 18 & over | 139 |
| 20-24 | 4 |
| 25-34 | 16 |
| 35-49 | 34 |
| 50-64 | 41 |
| 65 & over | 40 |
| Population by Ethnicity | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 95 |
| Non Hispanic or Latino | 81 |
| Population by Race | |
| White | 156 |
| African-American | 0 |
| Asian | 1 |
| Native American | 3 |
| Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| Other | 13 |
| Two or more | 3 |
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