Chivington is an unincorporated town in Kiowa County, Colorado, United States. The U.S. Post Office at Eads (ZIP Code 81036) now serves Chivington postal addresses.
Chivington was named for the Reverend/Colonel John Chivington, who was celebrated as the hero of the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass and commanded the Volunteer Militia of the Colorado Territory that perpetrated the Sand Creek massacre, a slaughter of Native Americans in a nearby gulch during the American Civil War. Chivington was lauded as a hero at first for Sand Creek, but as details of the massacre became known, he was officially reprimanded and Territorial Governor John Evans lost his job for encouraging Chivington.
Chivington (est. 1887) was one of several railroad towns in Kiowa County on eastern Colorado’s plains along the Missouri Pacific Railroad line, and in the late 19th century, eastern Colorado had a lot of agriculture and related commerce. Railroad workers also briefly contributed to the local economy as the…
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