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Flagler is a statutory town in western Kit Carson County, Colorado, near Exit 395 on Interstate 70.

The town was established in 1888 beside the new Rock Island Railroad, on a site whose earlier store and post office had been called Bowser, after owner W. H. Lavington's favorite dog.

The settlement was first named Malowe, for Rock Island Railroad attorney M. A. Lowe, and was later renamed Flagler in honor of railroad builder Henry Flagler at the request of his daughter, who liked the area.

The Flagler post office opened on October 12, 1888, and the Town of Flagler was incorporated on November 2, 1916.

The town population was 567 at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 561 in 2010.

At the 2000 census, Flagler had 271 households and 319 housing units.

Flagler covers about 1.37 square miles at an elevation of 4,941 feet, and its post office has the ZIP Code 80815.

Flagler's economy rests on agriculture, especially wheat and corn, and the town calls itself the "Birdseed Capital of the World" because the Wagner's Wild Bird Seed plant is its top private employer.

Local children attend the Arriba-Flagler Consolidated School District 20, whose teams are the Panthers, and Flagler's high school is known as one of the top-performing schools in Colorado academically.

On September 15, 1951, a stunt plane performing at Flagler's Fall Festival Day air show crashed into the spectators, killing twenty people, one of the worst air show accidents in American history at the time.