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History

Moffat County was first occupied by the people of the Fremont Culture as well as other Indian tribes. Jim Bridger and the Ashley Expedition traveled through western Moffat County in 1825. Mountain man Batiste Brown and his Indian wife settled in what is now Brown's Park, in western Moffat County, from 1827 until 1845. Many other mountain men arrived and left during the early to mid 1800's.

During the 1870's, when the area was being populated by settlers, the isolation of Brown's Park attracted outlaws who frequently stopped over while running from the law. The most notorious of those outlaws were Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and a gang known as the Wild Bunch.

Craig's current site was known as Windsor in 1880 and as Yampa in 1883. Yampa is an Indian word for bear and what is now the Yampa River was known as Bear River for years. The town of Craig, located in Routt County, began in 1891 and was incorporated in 1908. Moffat County was formed by separating from the western portion of Routt County in 1912 at which time Craig became the county seat.

Craig Colorado Facts:

County Seat for Moffat County.

Population: 10,053.

Home to over 300 ancient Native American pictoglyphs.

Craig is 7,241 miles from Tokyo, Japan.

 

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