id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2082 Trinidad, Colorado - Wikipedia .html text/html 3733 540 75 Location of the City of Trinidad in Las Animas County, Colorado. The City of Trinidad is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.[8] The population was 9,096 as of the 2010 census, up slightly from 9,078 in 2000. By the late 1860s, the town had about 1,200 residents.[9] Trinidad was officially incorporated in 1876, just a few months before Colorado became a state.[10] In 1878 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Trinidad, making it easier for goods to be shipped from distant locations.[11] In the 1880s Trinidad became home to a number of well-known people, including Bat Masterson, who briefly served as the town's marshal in 1882.[12] By 1900 Trinidad's population had grown to 7,500 and it had two English-language newspapers and one in Spanish.[13] In 1885, Holy Trinity Catholic Church was constructed.[14] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2082.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2082.txt