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Lamar
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home rule municipality in and county seat of Prowers County, Colorado, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Prowers County
- Incorporated
- December 5, 1886
- Type
- Home Rule Municipality
- Mayor
- Kirk Crespin
- Total
- 5.29 sq mi (13.70 km )
- Land
- 5.27 sq mi (13.65 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km )
- Elevation
- 3,619 ft (1,103 m)
- Density
- 1,459/sq mi (563.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 08-43110
- Website
- City Website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lamar is the home rule municipality that is the county seat of and the most populous municipality in Prowers County, Colorado. The city population was 7,687 at the 2020 United States census. The city was named after Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a Confederate soldier and diplomat who wrote the Mississippi Secession Ordinance, and after the Civil War, went on to serve as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Lamar is the home of Lamar Community College, and is the largest city in southeastern Colorado.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lamar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.