Category: Colorado

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Broomfield, Colorado

    10 Interesting Facts About Broomfield, Colorado

    Facts About Broomfield The City and County of Broomfield is a consolidated city and county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. The estimated population of Broomfield is 74,112, as of 2020. Broomfield is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. The municipality of Broomfield was incorporated…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Loveland

    10 Interesting Facts About Loveland

    Facts About Loveland Loveland officially becomes an incorporated town, with J.H. Aldrich as the town’s first mayor, in 1881. The City of Loveland is the home rule municipality that is the second most populous municipality in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Loveland is located in south-eastern Larimer County at 40°24′17″N 105°5′9″W (40.404789, −105.085868) The city…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Boulder

    10 Interesting Facts About Boulder

    Facts About Boulder Boulder has more used bookstores per capita than any other city in the country. The estimated population of 108,250, making it the 12th most populous city in Colorado, as of 2020. Boulder is surrounded by more than 31,000 acres of recreational open space and nature preserves. Boulder is located at the base…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Greeley, Colorado

    10 Interesting Facts About Greeley, Colorado

    Facts About Greeley Greeley began as the Union Colony of Colorado, which was founded in 1869 by Nathan C. Meeker The name Union Colony was later changed to Greeley in honour of Horace Greeley, who had come to Colorado in the 1859 Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Greeley was incorporated as a city on April 6,…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Parker, Colorado

    10 Interesting Facts About Parker, Colorado

    Facts About Parker Parker is located in northeastern Douglas County at 39°31′10″N 104°45′57″W (39.519488, −104.765833). As a self-declared “Town” under the home rule statutes, Parker is the second most populous town in the county. The town has a total area of 20.5 square miles, of which 0.02 square miles, or 0.08%, is water. Cherry Creek…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Longmont, Colorado

    10 Interesting Facts About Longmont, Colorado

    Facts About Longmont Longmont is named after Longs Peak, a prominent mountain named for explorer Stephen H. Long that is clearly visible from Longmont, and “mont”, from the French word “montagne” for mountain. Longmont was founded in 1871 by a group of people from Chicago, Illinois. Originally called the Chicago-Colorado Colony. Longmont was the site…