Eastern Plains
Phillips County
10 Porch Notes tied to Phillips County — the local details that change from one part of Colorado to the next.
Money and taxes (1)
Water and land (2)
Water and land
A big irrigation well is not the same as the home's water in Phillips County
Farm and ranch parcels in Phillips County may carry a large irrigation well that is permitted and limited separately from the household water supply.
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In Phillips County, wells sit in a designated groundwater basin
Most of Phillips County lies in a state-designated groundwater basin, where wells are administered differently than wells in the rest of Colorado.
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Outdoors and wildfire
A Phillips County state wildlife area is not a park
State wildlife areas in and around Phillips County are managed for hunting and fishing access and now require a license or pass to enter, unlike a public park.
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Phillips County hunting often means private land through Walk-In Access
Much of the bird hunting in Phillips County happens on private fields opened to the public through Colorado's Walk-In Access program, not on public land.
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History and culture (4)
History and culture
Haxtun's Corn Festival: a September tradition more than a century old
Each September the small Phillips County town of Haxtun throws a Corn Festival that has run for more than a hundred years, with a downtown parade and a full day of harvest celebration.
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Holyoke's courthouse is a New Deal landmark you can walk right up to
The 1935 Phillips County Courthouse in Holyoke is a Moderne-style Public Works Administration building on the National Register, and the only surviving PWA project in the county.
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The Heginbotham House: a banker's home that became Holyoke's library
Holyoke's public library sits in the historic W.E. Heginbotham House, a 1920s brick home built for a local banker and documented by History Colorado.
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Why Phillips County's towns line up the way they do
Holyoke, Haxtun, Paoli, and Amherst grew up as evenly spaced railroad towns along a line built across the plains in the late 1800s.
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