Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection 2024 Fast Facts

Check out the third edition of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection Fast Facts report by Library Research Service at LRS.org.

An image of the top of the latest CHNC Fast Facts for 2024.

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) lives up to its slogan “Experience Colorado as It Happened” by providing free access to 5.1 million digitized pages, representing more than 840 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up through 2024. The latest CHNC Fast Facts, which charts CHNC’s growth from 2010 to 2025 and highlights some standout figures from 2024 (when more than 500 thousand pages were added to the site) is now published on Library Research Service’s Fast Facts page. Users from all fifty states visited CHNC in 2024. You can use this interactive graphic to see the usage in each state or check out how many newspapers have been archived from your favorite Colorado county.