Founded in 1851, the Town of Manassa is a
Statutory Town
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and is the
most populous municipality in
Conejos County,
Colorado
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, United States. The town's population was 947 at the
2020 United States census.
Location
Manassa is a farming and ranching community located in eastern
Conejos County, Colorado
Conejos County (Spanish language, Spanish for "rabbits") is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 7,461. The county seat is the Unincorporated area, unincorporated c ...
in the sprawling
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, making it the largest alpine valley in the world. It extends from the Continental Divide on ...
in
South-Central Colorado
South-Central Colorado is a region of the U.S. state of Colorado. It can be roughly defined by Chaffee County in the northwest, El Paso County in the northeast, Las Animas County in the southeast, and Conejos County in the southwest. Some notab ...
.
Manassa's elevation is above sea level. The land within Manassa city limits is entirely flat, with rolling hills nearby. Foothills and mountains (taller than ) are farther in each direction, including the
Sangre de Cristo Range to the east and the
San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry ...
to the west.
The most prominent mountain in the area,
Blanca Peak, is 37 miles to the northeast and towers over the
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
The
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, making it the largest alpine valley in the world. It extends from the Continental Divide on ...
contains six counties and portions of three others. It is an extensive high-elevation depositional basin of approximately with an average elevation of above sea level. The valley is a section of the
Rio Grande Rift
The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone. It separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. The rift extends from central Colorado in the north to the state of Chihuah ...
and is drained to the south by the
Rio Grande
The Rio Grande ( or ) in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico (), also known as Tó Ba'áadi in Navajo language, Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the Southwestern United States a ...
, which rises in the San Juan Mountains to the west of the valley and flows south into New Mexico. The San Luis Valley has a cold desert climate but has substantial water resources from the Rio Grande and
groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and Pore space in soil, soil pore spaces and in the fractures of stratum, rock formations. About 30 percent of all readily available fresh water in the world is groundwater. A unit ...
.
History
Migration patterns demonstrate how people from northern
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...
settled the area around Manassa in the mid 19th century. Many early settlers were the descendants of colonists from the Spanish colonial period beginning in 1598 with
Juan de Oñate
Juan de Oñate y Salazar (; 1550–1626) was a Spanish conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state of New Mexico. He led early Spanish expedition ...
's colonization of New Mexico. Today, approximately half of Manassa's residents are of Spanish and Mexican heritage. Most of the other citizens of Manassa are the descendants of the
Mormon pioneers
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who Human migration, migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the ...
who founded Manassa in 1879, and named the town after
Manasseh
Manasseh () is both a given name and a surname. Its variants include Manasses and Manasse.
Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh (died 1944), Singaporean rice and opium merchant and hotelier
* Jacob Manasseh ( ...
, a son of the Israelite
Joseph
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. Manassa was located a short distance from two ranches purchased by the Mormons from Hispanos on the south side of the
Conejos River
The Conejos River is a tributary of the Rio Grande, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 31, 2011 in south-central Colorado in the United States. It d ...
, across from
Los Cerritos, Colorado.
The selection of the land for the colony was made on the assurance that the railroad would soon be built nearby. However, one year later the railroad bypassed the colony, and instead passed through Romeo, Colorado, just three miles to the west.
Railroad
The selection of the land for the colony was made on the assurance that the railroad would soon be built nearby. However, one year later the railroad bypassed the colony, and instead passed through
Romeo
Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Characters in Romeo and Juliet#Lord Montague, Lord Montague and his wife, Characters in Romeo and Juliet#Lady Montague, Lady Montague, he ...
, just to the west.
The
Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad (formerly the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad) is a
class III railroad
Railroad classes are the system by which freight railroads are designated in the United States. Railroads are assigned to Class I, II or III according to annual revenue criteria originally set by the Surface Transportation Board in 1992. With a ...
operating in south-central
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
. It runs on 154 miles of former
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad , often shortened to ''Rio Grande'', D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a narrow-gauge line running south fr ...
tracks on three lines radiating from
Alamosa and interchanges with the
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...
in
Walsenburg. Much of the railroad is located in the
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, making it the largest alpine valley in the world. It extends from the Continental Divide on ...
. In 2022, it was purchased by
Stefan Soloviev.
Geography and climate
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of , all land.
Manassa experiences a
semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of se ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''BSk'') with cold, dry winters and warm, somewhat wetter summers.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 1,042 people, 362 households, and 280 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 398 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 81.00%
White
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, 0.48%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 1.63%
Native American, 0.10%
Asian, 0.19%
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...
, 13.24% from
other races, and 3.36% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ...
or
Latino of any race were 48.75% of the population.
There were 362 households, out of which 41.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.1% were
married couples
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...
living together, 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 20.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.88 and the average family size was 3.33.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 33.7% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.4 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $23,092, and the median income for a family was $26,827. Males had a median income of $23,295 versus $16,029 for females. The
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.
In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the town was $12,576. About 23.2% of families and 28.6% of the population were below the
poverty line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for ...
, including 40.8% of those under age 18 and 19.4% of those age 65 or over.
Streets
Manassa's wide streets, such as those typically found elsewhere in towns started by
Mormons
Mormons are a Religious denomination, religious and ethnocultural group, cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's d ...
, are fashioned in a grid system. The town fits perfectly in a township and comprises close to one square mile, made up of eight blocks by eight blocks for a total of 64 city blocks. From east to west, the streets are numbered First through Ninth. From south to north, the streets are named South, Jack, Morgan, Smith, Main (aka
State Highway 142), Berthelson, Peterson, Dotson, and North.
Manassa's mile-long Main Street is designated
State Highway 142, connecting
Romeo
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and
U.S. Route 285 to the west, with the historic town of
San Luis in
Costilla County to the east. The
San Luis Hills
The San Luis Hills are a group of small mountain ranges in Conejos County, Colorado, Conejos and Costilla County, Colorado, Costilla counties in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The individual mountain ranges that make up the San Luis Hil ...
are east of Manassa, on State Highway 142, between Manassa and San Luis.
Pioneer Days
The community-at-large, and generations from all over the San Luis Valley and beyond, celebrate Manassa Pioneer Days with a colorful parade known for its amazing floats goes down Main Street on two days. At the fairgrounds you can watch horse races, rodeo events, motocross races, a very popular demolition derby, fireworks, live entertainment, barbecues, and a morning 5K run.
This is one of the best western heritage festivals around, and it includes a carnival with the Tilt-a-Whirl, bumper cars, ferris wheel, a merry-go-round, and other midway rides. Live musical entertainment, a hamburger stand, and vendor booths line Manassa's city park on Main Street during these busy days. The rocks on the nearby mountain with its painted letter M are doused with kerosene and the burning spectacle lights up the night sky for several hours.
The celebration features small-town fun and more than a century of tradition. Held annually for two days around July 24, this is one of the oldest festivals in the state, with the 144th annual celebration being held in 2023. The weekend-long affair is in honor of the arrival of
Brigham Young
Brigham Young ( ; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until h ...
and fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's
Great Salt Lake
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Valley on July 24, 1847. The
Mormon pioneers
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who Human migration, migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the ...
, as they were commonly known, left their settlement in
Nauvoo, Illinois
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, and journeyed west seeking refuge from religious persecution.
Each year, attendance for Manassa Pioneer Days is estimated at close to 10,000 per day, with people coming from many parts of the country to visit family and friends and to enjoy the festivities.
Transportation
Travel connections to major cities are generally made at
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is the most populous city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous c ...
,
Denver
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, or
Albuquerque
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.
With daily flights to Denver, the nearest commercial airport
San Luis Valley Regional Airport is in
Alamosa to the north. Alamosa is the most populated municipality and the main trading center for the
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, making it the largest alpine valley in the world. It extends from the Continental Divide on ...
.
Schools
Manassa students attend public schools in the North Conejos School District RE1-J. There is an elementary school in Manassa, but older students attend the district's middle school (Centauri Middle School) and high school (Centauri High School) about north and west of Manassa, just south of the town of
La Jara. The high school teams are the Falcons, and the school colors are red and white.
Higher education
Students from Manassa who don't want to travel far or wish to remain in the area, can get their higher education in nearby Alamosa. With a population of about 8,500, Alamosa is the home of
Adams State University
Adams State University is a public university in Alamosa, Colorado, United States. The university's Adams State Grizzlies athletic teams compete in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
History
Adams State was founded in 1921 as a normal scho ...
where students can earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide variety of disciplines.
Alamosa is also home to a branch campus of
Trinidad State College, a two-year community college, which offers a considerable selection of courses including Massage, Nursing, Welding, Auto and Diesel Mechanics and Law Enforcement Training.
Churches
There are two churches in Manassa: St. Therese of the Child Jesus Catholic Church, and a
meetinghouse for
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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.
Hospitals
Conejos County Hospital is a
critical access hospital in La Jara, Colorado, in Conejos County. The hospital has 17 beds and is a Level IV trauma center, serving Conejos and Costilla counties in the San Luis Valley. It is the only emergency service provider in the two counties in the 2,514 square mile area.
The hospital was established in 1963. It was originally started and staffed by
Mennonites
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ...
who continued running the hospital through the 1970s. The hospital completed a $6 million expansion in 2019, which included an upgrade to its emergency rooms.
The hospital is one of two hospitals (and several regional clinics) that make up San Luis Valley Health (SLV Health), a small hospital network founded in 2013. The other hospital in the network is the
San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in Alamosa.
Banks and financial institutions
The nearest bank is located in La Jara, Colorado, 10 miles away. The La Jara banking center is part of Community Banks of Colorado, a division of National Bank Holdings, NBH Bank, Member FDIC.
The Guadalupe Parish Credit Union, in Antonito, Colorado, serves parishioners and their family members from Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Antonito, CO, St. Joseph's Parish in La Jara, CO, and Sangre de Cristo Parish in San Luis, CO.
Tourism
Manassa counts many nearby attractions, including the
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve,
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad
The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge Heritage railway, heritage railroad that operates on of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United Sta ...
,
Colorado Gators Reptile Park, the
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad,
Fort Garland Museum,
UFO Watchtower, and the Stations of the Crosses site in nearby
San Luis, Colorado, which is the oldest town in the State of Colorado.
Our Lady of Guadeloupe Catholic Church, the oldest church in Colorado, founded in 1858, 18 years before Colorado's statehood is located in nearby
Conejos, about southwest of Manassa, near the town of
Antonito.
Notable people

*
Jack Dempsey
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926.
One of the most iconic athl ...
(aka The Manassa Mauler). William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American professional heavyweight champion boxer The Jack Dempsey Museum honors the legacy and memory of the famous boxing champion.
*
Ken Salazar
Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as United States ambassador to Mexico from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior in the administ ...
, Appointed by President Joe R. Biden to serve as United States Ambassador to Mexico, former Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, former U.S. senator, Democrat, first elected 2004 for a six-year term. Former Attorney General for the State of Colorado.
*
John Salazar, served as Commissioner of the
Colorado Department of Agriculture from 2011 to 2015 and U.S. representative from
Colorado's 3rd congressional district from 2005 to 2011. John Salazar is the brother of Ken Salazar.
Turquoise mine
Mantissa
turquoise
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula . It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue.
The robi ...
is mined east of Manassa. It is known for its blue-green to green color with a golden or brown, non-webbed matrix. The Manassa mine is still in production and owned by the King family, thus the alternate name sometimes used for this turquoise. This stone is a favorite of many; the beautiful green color is very striking, excellent when used in gold.
This site, originally mined by Ancestral Pueblo peoples, was rediscovered in 1890 by gold prospector I.P. King, and his descendants still work the claim. King's Manassa turquoise is best known for its brilliant greens and golden matrices, but blue and blue-green turquoise was found amid these deposits as well.
Federal lands
The
Conejos River
The Conejos River is a tributary of the Rio Grande, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 31, 2011 in south-central Colorado in the United States. It d ...
is a tributary of the Rio Grande, approximately long, in south-central Colorado in the United States. It drains a scenic area of the eastern San Juan Mountains west of the San Luis Valley. Trout fishing is popular on the Conejos River.
The
Rio Grande National Forest
Rio Grande National Forest is a 1.86 million-acre (7,530 km2) U.S. National Forest located in southwestern Colorado. The forest encompasses the San Luis Valley, which is the world's largest agricultural alpine valley, as well as one of t ...
is a 1.86 million-acre (7,530 km2) U.S. National Forest located in southwestern Colorado. The forest encompasses the San Luis Valley, which is the world's largest agricultural alpine valley, as well as one of the world's largest high deserts located around mountains. The Rio Grande rises in the forest, and the Continental Divide runs along most of its western border. The forest lies in parts of nine counties. In descending order of land area within the forest they are Saguache, Mineral, Conejos, Rio Grande, Hinsdale, San Juan, Alamosa, Archuleta, and Custer counties. Forest headquarters are currently located in Monte Vista, Colorado, but plan to move to Del Norte. There are local ranger district offices in Del Norte, La Jara, and Saguache.
The
San Luis Hills WSA are a group of small mountain ranges in Conejos and Costilla counties in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The individual mountain ranges that make up the San Luis Hills include the Fairy Hills, the Brownie Hills, the Piñon Hills, and the South Piñon Hills. The San Luis Hills' highest point is Flat Top, elevation .
The
South San Juan Wilderness
The South San Juan Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the San Juan National Forest, east of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Pagosa Springs, in southern Colorado. The area, which spans 158,790 acres, was designated a Wilderness Area and pu ...
is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the San Juan National Forest, east of Pagosa Springs, in southern Colorado. The area, which spans 158,790 acres, was designated a Wilderness Area and put into the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1980 by the United States Congress.
The Conejos, San Juan, and Blanco rivers all begin in the area.
The last known grizzly bear in Colorado was killed in the wilderness in 1979. Some believe that it is still home to a few grizzlies, but there is no sufficient evidence yet to prove this.
Media
The Valley Courier in
Alamosa and The SLV Dweller
"a website dedicated to all things San Luis Valley," are two media outlets covering events in and near Manassa.
Political representation
* Colorado State House District 62:
Matthew Martinez, D-Monte Vista
* Colorado State Senate District 6:
Cleave Simpson, R-Alamosa
* U. S. Representative District 3:
Jeff Hurd, R-Grand Junction
* United States Senators:
John Hickenlooper
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(D), and
Michael Bennet
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(D)
Government
Town Hall, 401 Main Street, PO Box 130, Manassa, Colorado 81141
(719) 843–5207
See also
*
Conejos County, Colorado
Conejos County (Spanish language, Spanish for "rabbits") is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 7,461. The county seat is the Unincorporated area, unincorporated c ...
*
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, making it the largest alpine valley in the world. It extends from the Continental Divide on ...
References
External links
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Photos and List of Things To Do In the AreaCDOT map of the Town of Manassaof video and quite a few photographs of Manassa and the surrounding area, as well as a collection of stories and articles from the ''San Luis Valley Dweller''
at City-data.com
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