Madrid is a

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in Las Animas County,

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, United States. It is east of the Front Range of the

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at an elevation of . The town is the west side of the county along State Highway 12, west of

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. Madrid is named for Hilario Madrid, who settled there in the 19th century from New Mexico, not after Spain's capital. Originally called Madrid Plaza, it was established as a settler's post in 1864. Hilario and his brother Juan Madrid homesteaded there in September 1879. There was a Post Office in the town from 1882 to 1917.

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