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Colorado City is a metropolitan district, a type of special district established under Colorado law. It is governed by an elected, five-member board of directors [7] and managed by an appointed district manager. The metropolitan district operates Lake Beckwith, which provides recreational opportunities for residents and visitors.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated three combined statistical areas, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and ten micropolitan statistical areas in Colorado. [1] As of 2023, the most populous of these statistical areas is the Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO CSA , comprising the area around Colorado's capital and largest city of Denver .
Colorado City effectively functioned as the capital for only five days. When the second territorial legislature met at Colorado City on July 7, 1862, in a log cabin that still stands on Colorado Avenue, they found the accommodations so inadequate that they voted to adjourn on July 11 and reconvene in Denver on July 16. [12] [13]
Lake Beckwith, both a reservoir managed by the Colorado City Metropolitan District and a state wildlife area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, offers fishing, walking, and canoeing. The highest peak in the Wet Mountains, Greenhorn Mountain, at 12,346 feet (3,763 meters), overlooks the valley from the west and dominates the view.
Colorado's congressional districts since 2023.[1] Colorado is divided into eight congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. The Territory of Colorado was represented by one non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from its organization on Thursday, February 2 ...
Greeley MSA. (April 1, 2020) Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The Denver region is part of the Front Range Urban Corridor and its metropolitan ...
The U.S. State of Colorado has 273 active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. [1][2] The City and County of Denver, the state capital, [3] is the oldest municipality in Colorado. On December 3, 1859, the extralegal Territory of Jefferson granted a charter to the consolidated City of ...
The Colorado Springs, CO, Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Office of Management and Budget defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) located in the Colorado Springs region of the State of Colorado. The 2020 United States census counted a population of 755,105, [ 1 ] an increase of 17.0% since the 2010 United States Census.