Today students living on Haswell's western-most border are bused 45 miles one way to school in Eads. The old fire-department building a quarter-mile up the road is boarded up, as is the Haswell Elementary School, a building constructed in the 1960s school mold: low, clean brick lines, flat-roofed. People stop and gossip at the one convenience store/gas station, Haswell Propane, a curved metal hanger along Route 96. The 1990 census found 62 people-38 families-in Haswell, a cluster of buildings surrounded by central Kiowa County's wheat and corn fields. A steady supply of water lay underground, and so, in 1887, as the builders of the Pueblo and State Line Railroad planned their route, they made a notation on their maps to identify the spot between the closest towns on either side-Eads, 21 miles to the east, and Sugar City, 34 miles west: "Has well." The town got its name from the railroad that ran through it and siphoned grain from the white elevators that rise above Colorado's eastern plains.
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