42 GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. 
Atlas sheet. 
Cheyenne — Continued. 
on the south by Kiowa County, and on the west by Lincoln 
County. . Its surface consists of high rolling plains. Its 
area is 1,787 square miles, of which less than one-half of 
1 per cent, or 2,740 acres, were under cultivation in 1900. 
The population in 1900 was 501, and of Cheyenne Wells, 
the county seat, 179. In 1900 the average magnetic declina- 
tion was 12° 25' east. The mean annual rainfall is about 
15 inches, and the mean annual temperature 50° to 55°. 
Cheyenne: creek in El Paso County, a right-hand branch of 
Fountain Creek, tributary to Arkansas River ( !olorado Springs. 
Cheyenne; creek in Prowers County, a right-hand branch of 
Arkansas River Granada. 
Cheyenne; creek in Grand County, a left-hand branch of West 
Fork North Platte River. 
Cheyenne; mountain in 1.1 Paso County; altitude, 9,407 feet. Colorado Springs. 
Cheyenne Wells; county seal of Cheyenne Count von Union 
Pacific Railroad; altitude, 4,279 feet Cheyenne Wells. 
Chicago; creek in Clear Creek County, a right-hand branch of 
Clear Creek < reorgetown. 
Chicago; gulch in La Plata County, a right-hand branch of 
Junction Creek Durango. 
Chicago; lake in Clear Creek County; altitude, 11,500 feet... Georgetown. 
~, . _ , . . -n , « (Tenmilel)istrict Spe- 
Chicago; mountain in Eagle County { . , ' 
I cial. 
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Chicago; ridge of mountains in Fagle(ountv . , 
I cial. 
Chicago Basin; valley in La Plata County Needle Mountains. 
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway; an extensive 
system occupying territory in the Central States. It has 
one line in Colorado running from the east to Colorado 
Springs. 
Chicito Hill; summit in Conejos County; altitude, 9,773 feet. 
Chicken; creek in Las Animas County, a right-hand branch of 
Purgatory River Spanish Peaks. 
Chicken; creek in Montezuma County, a right-hand branch of 
Dolores River La Plata. 
Chico; creek in Pueblo County, a left-hand branch of Arkansas 
River Nepesta. 
Chico; station in Pueblo County on Atchison, Topeka and 
Santa Fe Railway; altitude, 4,549 feet Nepesta. 
Chicorica; creek in Las Animas County, a right-hand branch 
of San Francisco Creek, tributary to Purgatory River Elmoro. 
Chicorico; mesa in Las Animas County, near Mesa de Maya.. Mesa de Maya. 
Chicosa; canyon in Las Animas County, through which flows 
Chicosa Creek, tributary to Purgatory River Spanish Peaks 
Chicosa; post village in Las Animas County on Denver and 
Rio Grande Railroad Spanish Peaks 
Chicosa Junction; station in Las Animas County on the 
Colorado and Southern and the Denver and Rio Grande 
railroads; altitude, 6,104 feet. 
Chief; creek in Yuma County, a left-hand branch of Republican 
River. 
