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The Town of Firestone is a Statutory Town in southwestern Weld County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 16,381 at the 2020 United States Census, a 61.44% increase since the 2010 United States Census. [3] Firestone is a part of the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Weld County is Colorado's leading producer of cattle, grain and sugar beets, and is the richest agricultural county in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and the fourth richest overall nationally.
This list ranks the 273 active incorporated municipalities [1] of the U.S. State of Colorado by population as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [2] This list also details municipal population changes since the 2000 United States census and includes a gallery of the 20 most populous Colorado municipalities.
[a] [5] [6] The City of Black Hawk with a 2020 population of 127 is the least populous Colorado city, while the Town of Castle Rock with a 2020 population of 73,158 is the most populous Colorado town. [1] [5] At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) lived in one of the 271 municipalities active at ...
Greeley began as the Union Colony of Colorado, which was founded in 1869 by Nathan C. Meeker, an agricultural reporter for the New York Tribune, as an experimental utopian farming community "based on temperance, religion, agriculture, education and family values," with the backing of the Tribune ' s editor Horace Greeley, who had visited Colorado in the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush and had ...
The borders of Colorado are now officially defined by 697 boundary markers connected by straight boundary lines. [3] Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah are the only states that have their borders defined solely by straight boundary lines with no natural features. [4] The southwest corner of Colorado is the Four Corners Monument at 36°59'56"N, 109°2 ...
The Colorado Province took shape as a mobile belt—an area of thinner, orogeny related continental crust lacking the deep "keel" of rock, which stabilized the neighboring Wyoming Craton and other cratons like it. Throughout Colorado's geologic history, rocks have often been deformed, metamorphosed and overprinted, obscuring the ancient record.