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Colfax

Colfax County is a county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,387. Its county seat is . It is south from the state line.
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  • Type: County with 13,800 residents
  • Description: county in New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Colfax County”, “Colfax County, New Mexico”, and “Colfax County, NM”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maxwell.

Village
is a village in Colfax County, , United States. The population was 254 at the 2010 census, down from 274 in 2000. was established in 1879 as a railroad town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Colfax

Latitude
36.5572° or 36° 33′ 26″ north
Longitude
-104.6119° or 104° 36′ 43″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
6,158 feet (1,877 metres)
Open location code
858QH94Q+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316973946
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5462567
Wiki­data ID
Q111979
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Colfax” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Colfax County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كولفاكس”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كولفاكس، نيومكسيكو”
  • Armenian: “Քոլֆաքս շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Colfax”
  • Basque: “Colfax konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Colfax County, New Mexico”
  • Bavarian: “Colfax County”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোলফ্যাক্স কাউন্টি, নিউ মেক্সিকো”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোলফ্যাক্স কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Колфакс”
  • Catalan: “Colfax County, Nou Mèxic”
  • Catalan: “Colfax County”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Colfax, Nou Mèxic”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Colfax”
  • Cebuano: “Colfax County”
  • Chechen: “Колфакс (гуо, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Chechen: “Колфакс”
  • Chinese: “Colfax Kūn”
  • Chinese: “科尔法克斯县”
  • Chinese: “科爾法克斯縣”
  • Croatian: “Colfax, okrug”
  • Croatian: “Colfax”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Colfax, Novi Meksiko”
  • Czech: “Colfax County”
  • Czech: “okres Colfax”
  • Dutch: “Colfax County”
  • Esperanto: “Colfax County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Colfax”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Colfax”
  • Estonian: “Colfaxi maakond”
  • Finnish: “Colfaxin piirikunta”
  • French: “Colfax County”
  • French: “comté de Colfax”
  • French: “Comté de Colfax”
  • Georgian: “კოლფაქსის ოლქი”
  • German: “Colfax County”
  • Gilaki: “کالفکس ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Κόλφαξ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κόλφαξ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קולפאקס”
  • Hungarian: “Colfax megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Colfax”
  • Italian: “Colfax County”
  • Italian: “contea di Colfax”
  • Italian: “Contea di Colfax”
  • Japanese: “コルファクス郡”
  • Japanese: “コルファックス郡”
  • Korean: “콜팩스군”
  • Low German: “Colfax County”
  • Mazanderani: “کالفکس شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Colfax Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colfax Kūn”
  • Navajo: “Kʼaiʼ Háálį́ Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colfax County i New Mexico”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colfax County, New Mexico”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colfax County”
  • Norwegian: “Colfax County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کالفکس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کالفکس”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Colfax”
  • Portuguese: “Colfax County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Colfax”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Colfax”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Colfax, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Colfax”
  • Russian: “Колфакс”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Colfax”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Colfax County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Колфакс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colfax County, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colfax County”
  • Spanish: “Colfax County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Colfax”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Colfax”
  • Swedish: “Colfax County, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Colfax County”
  • Tatar: “Колфакс (округ, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Tatar: “Колфакс”
  • Turkish: “Colfax County, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Colfax County, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Colfax County, NM”
  • Turkish: “Colfax County”
  • Turkish: “Colfax ilçesi, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Colfax ilçesi, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Colfax ilçesi, NM”
  • Turkish: “Colfax ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Колфакс”
  • Urdu: “کولفیکس کاؤنٹی، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “کولفیکس کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Colfax”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Colfax, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Colfax, Tân Mễ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Colfax”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Colfax, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Colfax”
  • Welsh: “Colfax County, Mecsico Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Colfax County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولفیکس کاؤنٹی”
  • “Colfax”

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