Editing Kiowa County, Colorado (section)

===Kiowa County today===
Agriculture in eastern Colorado collapsed in the [[Dust Bowl]] days of the 1930s; today mostly dry-land farms and some ranching interests survive. Colorado's [[Colorado Front Range|Front Range]] cities and agriculture interests upstream have acquired most of the [[water rights]], and the [[groundwater]] [[aquifer]]s are drying up. Kiowa County faces ever-decreasing water supplies and further economic decline.

It is conceivable that much of the county will eventually revert to its original sparse [[grassland]] and [[prairie]] conditions of the pre-1880s.

Today Eads, along the old railroad line, is the largest town in the county. It is the Kiowa county seat, serves the surviving farming and ranching interests, and hosts the county's largest high school. Sheridan Lake does have a combined junior-and-senior high, and still surviving in some form are the towns of Towner, Arlington, Brandon, Chivington, and Haswell.

Eads is also the location of the county's chief hospital, [[Weisbrod Memorial County Hospital]].<ref name=CHA>{{cite web |url= https://cha.com/colorado-hospitals/find-a-hospital/hospital/?id=324 |title= Weisbrod Memorial County Hospital |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2024 |website=Colorado Hospital Association |publisher= |access-date=March 15, 2024 |quote=}}</ref>