Orchard, CO

Orchard is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Morgan County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 76 residents. The CDP is a part of the Fort Morgan, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Orchard post office has been in operation since 1882. That mix gives Orchard a clear local shape within Colorado, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The community was named for a grove of cottonwood trees near the original town site. Orchard is in western Morgan County along Colorado State Highway 144, north of the South Platte River. Highway 144 leads northeast, then southeast down the South Platte valley 23 miles to Fort Morgan, the Morgan county seat, and south 4 miles to U.S. Route 34.