Holly is a statutory town in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado, United States.

[2] The town is located 4.3 miles (6.9 km) west of the Kansas border at an elevation of 3,393 feet (1,034 m).

Despite having the lowest elevation of any Colorado municipality, Holly is higher than the high points of 19 states and the District of Columbia.

[9] Holly Sugar was created in the town in 1905 just in time for the sugarbeet harvest that year.

Holly is the hometown of Roy Romer who moved there as an infant from his birthplace of Garden City, Kansas.

Romer served as the 39th Governor of Colorado from 1987 to 1999, and subsequently as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2000 to 2006.

[citation needed] Private Elmer M. Gideon, USA, was born and raised near Holly.

Private Gideon landed on Omaha Beach on June 12th, 1944, and died under sniper around August 6th, near St Lo.