Messex, Colorado
Unincorporated community in State of Colorado, United States
40°25′45″N 103°26′11″W / 40.42917°N 103.43639°W / 40.42917; -103.43639[1] (2010)
Messex, Colorado is a virtual ghost town in Washington County, Colorado. Its population in the 2010 census was 2, but has been several hundred in the past. Settled in the 1860s as a "Wild West" town, it became for a time a place where German immigrants grew sugar beets. In the 1990s, the population was about a dozen people, but it had declined to just 2 people by 2010.[2]
The community was named for Joe Messex, a railroad official.[3]
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