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Rifle is a home rule municipality in, and the most populous community of, Garfield County, Colorado, United States.The population was 10,437 at the 2020 census. [7] Rifle is a regional center of the cattle ranching industry located along Interstate 70 and the Colorado River just east of the Roan Plateau, which dominates the western skyline of the town.
US-6 joins I-70 5 miles (8 km) to the east at Chacra and 17 miles (27 km) to the west at a point west of Rifle. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2 ), of which 2.7 square miles (6.9 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 1.21%, is water.
[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 ...
Rifle Gap State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Garfield County near Rifle, Colorado. The 1,341-acre (543-hectare) park established in 1966 includes a 360-acre (150-hectare) reservoir. [2] Plant communities are pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush shrubland with deciduous riparian forest in places along the edge of the Rifle Gap Reservoir.
The Rifle Bridge, over the Colorado River in Rifle, Colorado, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] It is a two-span steel through truss bridge, with one 12-panel Pennsylvania truss span and one 10-panel Parker truss span. It was assessed to be "situated poorly on a tight bend in the river and ...
Garfield School District Re-2 is a school district headquartered in Rifle, Colorado. It includes municipalities and areas in the western portion of Garfield County. In addition to Rifle it includes New Castle and Silt. [2] As of 2020 it had almost 800 employees and 4,700 students. [2]
This is a list of more than 3,800 currently, or formerly, inhabited places in the U.S. State of Colorado. [a] [2] Major inhabited places in Colorado include the: 273 municipalities from the List of municipalities in Colorado [3] [4] [1] [2] 210 census-designated places from the List of census-designated places in Colorado [5]
McNulty Reservoir Dam in Eagle County, Colorado, United States, sits 7,999 feet (2,438 metres) above sea level in Colorado's Rocky Mountains between Rifle, Colorado and Vail, Colorado and 6.8 miles (11 kilometres) outside El Jebel, Colorado. The Dam is a water storage that used to be utilized for ranching purposes on the historic Mcnulty Ranch. [1]