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Jansen is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Las Animas County,
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. The population of the Jansen CDP was 101 at the United States Census 2020. The
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( Zip Code 81082) serves the Jansen postal addresses.


Geography

Jansen is located in western Las Animas County in the valley of the Purgatoire River. Colorado State Highway 12 passes through the community, leading northeast to Trinidad, the
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, and west to Cokedale. The Jansen CDP has an area of , all land.


Demographics

The
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initially defined the for the


See also

* Las Animas County, Colorado


References


External links


Las Animas County website
{{authority control Census-designated places in Las Animas County, Colorado Census-designated places in Colorado