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www.evanscolorado.gov. The City of Evans is a home rule municipality located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 22,165 at the 2020 United States Census, a 19.57% increase since the 2010 United States Census. [5] Evans is a part of the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.
The state of Colorado is a headwater state, which means that many rivers in the western and midwestern United States originate in Colorado. The Platte River, the Arkansas River, the Rio Grande River and the Colorado River all have their headwaters in Colorado. [2] Colorado's use of these waters has an effect on users downstream.
The population of the city was an estimated 257,000 and so the new agency was immediately faced with the need for more water for the city. [55] Denver Water acquired the Antero Reservoir in Park County, Colorado and Highline Canal for $450,000 in 1924. [49] The need for water was especially pressing during the droughts of the 1930s in Colorado.
The names of the 17 Colorado rivers with a drainage basin of more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,900 sq mi) are shown in bold. Oceans and streams outside of Colorado are shown in italics. Pacific Ocean. Gulf of California. Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 km 2 (8,304 mi 2) Little Snake River 10,629 km 2 (4,104 mi 2)
September 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM. A crested sculpin in Alaska. Shane Gross/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024. The Ocean Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest ...
Also uncovered during the fires were extensive water containment features, including 1,189 check dams, 344 terraces, and five reservoirs that date to the Pueblo II and III periods.In February 2008, the Colorado Historical Society decided to invest a part of its $7 million (equivalent to $9,728,000 in 2023) budget into a culturally modified ...
The City and County of Denver, capital of the U.S. state of Colorado, has 78 official neighborhoods used for planning and administration. [1] The system of neighborhood boundaries and names dates to 1970 when city planners divided the city into 73 groups of one to four census tracts, called "statistical neighborhoods," most of which are ...
The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic Western drought that dried up the Klamath Basin, an intense water war pitted local farmers against Indigenous tribes ...