Messex, Colorado is a virtual ghost town in Washington County, Colorado.

Its population in the 2010 census was 2, but has been several hundred in the past.

Settled in the 1860s as a "Wild West" town, it became for a time a place where German immigrants grew sugar beets.

[2] The community was named for Joe Messex, a railroad official.

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