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Crowley County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States . The county population was 5,518 at U.S. Census 2000 . The county seat is Ordway .
Crowley County was created by the Colorado legislature on May 29, 1911, out of the northern portions of Otero County . Previously both were parts of Bent County . The county was named for John H. Crowley, senator from Otero County to the state legislature at the time of the split. Its original inhabitants decades earlier were native Americans , more Cheyenne than other tribes at the time the western expansion of the U.S. arrived. The first significant development and settlement occurred in 1887 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through from the east, on its way to Pueblo and Colorado's rich gold fields of " Pikes Peak Or Bust ". The county seat is in Ordway , a town established in 1890 that quickly became the economic hub of the area. Other towns still existing along the Missouri Pacific Railroad's route are Sugar City , Crowley , and Olney Springs .
