Baxter is an
unincorporated community
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in
Pueblo County
Pueblo County ( or ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,162. The county seat is Pueblo. The county was named for the historic city of Pueblo which took its name from the Spanish la ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
.
The community has the name of O. H. P. Baxter, a local settler.
References
Unincorporated communities in Pueblo County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
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