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Bennett, Colorado
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The Bennett skyline
Bennett was known as Kiowa Crossing until a nasty train wreck happened in 1878. A heavy rainstorm washed out a railroad bridge just east of town in May that year. A Kansas Pacific Railway train of 25 cars loaded with scrap iron ran off the missing bridge with George Platt, Frank Seldon and John Bacon on board. While the locomotive was never officially found, the rest of the train was recovered. In 1989, Lloyd Glasier (archivist with the Union Pacific Railroad) discovered paperwork indicating that the railroad had secretly found the locomotive and dug it up. They then changed all the insignia on the locomotive and put it back in service while collecting the insurance money in a complicated scam. As the dead engineers Seldon and Bacon were married to sisters whose maiden name was Bennett, Kiowa Crossing was renamed in their honor.
Bennett also has the distinction of having recorded the highest temperature ever in Colorado: 118°F back on July 11, 1888.
Latitude: 39.7536°N
Longitude: 104.4286°W
ncorporated: January 22, 1930
Elevation: 5,485'
Education:
High School or Higher: 87.6%
Bachelor's Degree or Higher: 12.3%
Graduate or Professional Degree: 1.8%
2011 Cost of Living Index for Bennett: 98.5
Median Resident Age: 30.9 Years
Estimated Median Household Income: $59,250
Estimated Median Home Value: $162,500
Major Industries:
Construction, Transportation Services, Retail Services, Finance & Insurance Services, Educational Services, Waste Management Services, Health Care, Lodging & Food Services, Professional Services, Government, Manufacturing, Social Services
Unemployed (March 2011): 10.9%
Population Demographics: 2010
Total Population | 2,308 |
Males | 1,179 |
Females | 1,129 |
Population by Age | |
Under 18 | 704 |
18 & over | 1,604 |
20-24 | 124 |
25-34 | 250 |
35-49 | 514 |
50-64 | 478 |
65 & over | 167 |
Population by Ethnicity | |
Hispanic or Latino | 246 |
Non Hispanic or Latino | 2,062 |
Population by Race | |
White | 2,119 |
African-American | 6 |
Asian | 8 |
Native American | 27 |
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 6 |
Other | 80 |
Two or more | 62 |
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