Red Wing, Colorado
unincorporated community in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States
Red Wing is an unincorporated community along the Huerfano River in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States.
Geography
Red Wing is located southwest of Gardner and just east of the Sangre de Cristo Range along County Road 580 in the Huerfano River Valley. The community is agrarian and has many interesting geological features, such as faults, outcrops of Dakota sandstone, and igneous intrusions.
The public source identifies “Red Wing, Colorado” as unincorporated community in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wing, Colorado and unincorporated.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Red Wing, Colorado”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q54888746. Authority coordinates are 37.736, -105.290. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Red Wing, Colorado”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Red Wing, Colorado primary sources, Red Wing, Colorado archive and Wing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Red Wing, Colorado”?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
- Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Red Wing, Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.