Bethune, Colorado, 80805

Bethune is in Kit Carson County. The town is a short distance north of I-70, on US 24 bordering to the south and Colorado Highway 40 to the west. Surrounded by farm land. Population is around 230.

Actor Denver Pyle was born in Bethune in 1920. He is buried in Forreston, Texas.

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Fifty houses in town were built before 1940, the most of any decade. Three-quarters of the people who drive to work drive alone. Of Bethune’s residents, 129 were born in Mexico, or 100% of the foreign-born. Those 129 make up 23.9 percent of the population. Forty-eight percent of Bethune residents do not have a high school education. In 2010, Bethune had one fatal car wreck, two vehicles, five people in the cars, four died. Alcohol was not a contributing factor.

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Conclusion from searches on three Colorado towns: Other than silver mining nothing of historical value ever happened in Colorado. An over-abundance of ski resorts does not count.