Segundo, CO

Segundo is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 100 residents. The Trinidad post office serves the area. Segundo was founded by Colorado Fuel and Iron as a company town to house its workers for a local coal mine. The short version is that Segundo carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Segundo: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The town was the second mining community developed by CF&I in 1904 behind Primero and was referenced in the town's name, with segundo meaning "second" in Spanish. Segundo is located 14 miles west of Trinidad along Colorado State Highway 12 in the valley of the Purgatoire River.