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Bloom

Ghost town · Otero County, Colorado

Bloom quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)
Bloom quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bloom is a ghost town in Otero County, Colorado. It is one of 2 former communities in Otero County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 27th among the 48 Colorado counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bloom as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.6875° N, 103.9567° W.

Key facts

Elevation4,791 ft
Nearest living townRocky Ford, CO
Distance to it28.1 miles
Coordinates37.68750, -103.95667

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Bloom today, aerial view
Bloom quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)

Left: Bloom quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Bloom is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rocky Ford, CO (population 3,843), about 28.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,791 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Images

General Store in Bloom, Colorado
General Store in Bloom, Colorado · Isabelle Hixon / Wikimedia Commons · public-domain

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Bloom?

Bloom is in Otero County, Colorado, at 37.6875, -103.9567.

How many ghost towns are in Otero County?

Otero County, Colorado has 2 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.