Vona, Colorado
town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States
Vona is a statutory town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 95 at the 2020 census.
History
Vona was named after Vona, the niece of an attorney from Burlington by the name of Pearl S. King. In 1936, a fire destroyed half of Vona's business district.
Geography
Vona is located at 39°18′10″N 102°44′39″W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all of it land.
Demographics
Transportation
Interstate 70 passes just south of Vona. The Vona exit from I-70 is exit 412. U.S. Highway 24 runs just north of the interstate, from Seibert through Vona, Stratton and Bethune to Burlington.
The public source identifies “Vona, Colorado” as town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Vona, Colorado and town.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2516918. Authority coordinates are 39.303, -102.744. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1936.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vona, 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.