20 GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. 
Atlas sheet. 
Avalanche; village in Pitkin County on Crystal River Rail- 
road; altitude, 6,934 feet. 
Avalo; post village in Weld County. 
Avendale; village in Kit Carson County on Denver and Rio 
( irande Railroad. 
Avery; peak in Elk Mountains, Gunnison County; altitude, 
12,659 feet ( !rested Butte. 
Avoca; village in Adams County. 
Avon; post village in Eagle County; altitude, 7,455 feet 
Avondale; post village in Pueblo County Nepesta. 
Axial; post village in Routl County. 
Axial Basin: extensive valley in Routt County, on Yampa 
River. 
Axtell; mountain in Gunnison County; altitude, 12,012 feet . . Anthracite. 
Ayer; station in < >tero ( !ounty, on Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
IV Railway; altitude, 4,574 feet. 
Aylmer; post village in Las Animas County. Railroad name, 
Bowen. 
Ayr; small village in Prowers County Two Butte. 
Aztec; gulch in Dolores CoUnty, tributary to East I >« "lores River. Rico. 
Aztec; mountain in La Plata County Needle Mountains. 
Aztec; spring in Montezuma County. 
Aztec Spring; creek in Montezuma County, a right-hand 
bran ;h of Rio Mancos, tributary to San Juan River. 
Aztec Village; old town in Montezuma County. 
Babcock; village in Chaffee County. 
Babcock; peak in La Rlata County La Plata. 
Baca; county in the southeastern part of the State; hounded 
on the north by Prowers and Rent comities, on the east by 
Kansas, on the south by Oklahoma, and on the west by 
Las Animas County. The surface consists of rolling plains 
which are covered in the southern portion by sand hills, 
and in the extreme south the plains are broken by many 
canyons tributary to the Cimarron River, which flows 
through the southeastern part of the State. The area is 
2,531 square miles, of which 7,832 acres, or about one-half 
of 1 percent, were under cultivation in 1900. The popula- 
tion in 1900 was 759, and of Springfield, the county seat, 44. 
In 1900 the average magnetic declination was 12° 25 / east. 
The mean annual rainfall is about 17 inches, and the mean 
annual temperature 50° to 55°. 
Bachelor Switch; station in Ouray County on Denver and 
Rio Grande Railroad Ouray. 
Baculite; mesa in Pueblo County Pueblo. 
Badger; creek in Adams, Arapahoe, and Morgan counties, a 
left-hand branch of Beaver Creek, tributary to South Platte 
River. 
Badg-er; creek in Fremont County, a left-hand tributary to 
Arkansas River. 
Badger; station in Fremont County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad; altitude, 6,765 feet. 
Badger; station in Teller County on Colorado Springs and 
Cripple Creek District Railway. 
