Birding Colorado

Sedgwick County
Author(s):  Henry Armknecht, Bill Kaempfer, Mark Peterson
County Seat: Julesburg
Size: 540 square miles
Low Elevation: 3,355 ft. - South Platte River on the NE border
High Elevation: 4,120 ft. - Sand Hill
Best Birds: Whip-poor-will (1987), Baird's Sparrow (1989)
Checklist: Sedgwick County Checklist
Introduction: Sedgwick County is in the extreme northeast corner of Colorado. It has the lowest average elevation of any county in Colorado. It is sparsely populated and arid. The main geographic feature of Sedgwick County is the South Platte River, which enters from Logan County to the west and exits north into Nebraska just east of Julesburg. The river bottom hosts a strip of riparian timber, primarily cottonwoods. I-76 runs on the south side of the river and State Highway 138 parallels the river on the north. The towns of Sedgwick, Ovid, and Julesburg are all on Highway 138, north of the river. River crossings connect these three towns to Interstate exchanges. Much of the land north of the river is hills and prairies. South of the Interstate is a narrow band of hills, and south of that is mostly flat cropland. Much of the river valley is irrigated cropland.

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