Starkville is a statutory town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.

[5] The town was named for Albert G. Stark, a coal mine owner.

[7] The community was formerly a company-owned coal-mining town owned and operated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.

[8] Exactly a month later, an explosion at the nearby Victor-American Fuel Company mine in Delagua killed 76.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), all of it land.

Starkville is adjacent to Interstate 25 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

There were 5.3% of families and 10.1% of the population living below the poverty line, including 18.2% of under eighteens and 22.2% of those over 64.