El Paso County was created 1
November 1861 as an original county. In 1859 it was formed from
old Arapahoe County in the territory of Kansas. On February 28,
1861 President James Buchanan signed an act organizing the
Territory of Colorado. El Paso county was created by the
Colorado legislature on November 1, 1861, and was one of
Colorado's original 17 counties. Originally based in Old
Colorado City (now part of Colorado Springs, not today's
Colorado City between Pueblo and Walsenburg), El Paso County's
county seat was moved to Colorado Springs in 1873. The name El
Paso is Spanish for "the pass," after Ute Pass north of Pikes
Peak.
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