The Town of Branson is a Statutory Town located in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 57 at the 2020 United States Census. Branson is the southernmost town in the State of Colorado, located just 0.3 miles (0.48 km) from the New Mexico border.

Branson is located nearly 35 miles east of Trinidad, Colorado, on State Highway 389, in the Great Plains, as capably in the Black Mesa area, the town is amongst mesa. It is a ranching community today. Farming in the area was terribly impacted by the dust bowl. Branson is much smaller than it taking into account was in more optimistic days and features some picturesque isolated buildings.

The town was first known as Wilson, or Wilson Switch; then as Coloflats. A reveal office was received in 1915, and its broadcast was tainted to Branson in 1918. The town is named after Josiah F. Branson who platted the town on his land. The town was incorporated in 1921. Branson is located north of a crack in the mesas which separate Southeast Colorado from Northeast New Mexico, the route of a young branch of the Santa Fe Trail. It was founded close a switch, Wilson Switch, of the Denver, Texas, and Fort Worth Railroad, later merged into the Colorado and Southern Railway, a predecessor of today’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe. A depot was built in 1918. Despite being unsuitable for farming, many homesteaders attempted dryland gardening in the prematurely 20th century. In great years there were bountiful harvests of grain and in the 1920s the town boasted 1000 people and 3 grain elevators as without difficulty as facilities such as a bank and a newspaper. After the drought and dust bowl of the 1930s population decreased snappishly as the economy turned from crop growing to ranching.

Branson is located at 37°0′55″N 103°53′1″W / 37.01528°N 103.88361°W / 37.01528; -103.88361 (37.015291, -103.883684).