Broomfield, Colorado City and County of Broomfield, Colorado Consolidated City and County Broomfield colorado interlocken Official seal of City and County of Broomfield, Colorado City and County Broomfield Sixteenth most crowded Colorado town/city Thirteenth most crowded Colorado county The City and County of Broomfield is a merged town/city and county in the U.S.
State of Colorado.
Broomfield has a merged town/city and county government which operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado.
The populace was 55,889 at the 2010 United States Census. Broomfield is the 16th most crowded municipality and the 13th most crowded county in Colorado.
Broomfield is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The municipality of Broomfield was incorporated in 1961 in the southeastern corner of Boulder County.
Over the next three decades, the town/city interval through annexations, many of which crossed the county line into three adjoining counties: Adams, Jefferson and Weld.
In the 1990s, town/city leaders began to push for the creation of a separate county to avoid the inefficiencies of dealing with four separate court districts, four different county seats, and four separate county revenue tax bases.
Broomfield reasoned that it could furnish services more responsively under its own county government, and sought an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution to problematic a new county.
On November 15, 2001, Broomfield County became the 64th, newest, and smallest county of Colorado.
It is also the newest county in the United States (if not including county equivalents).
Broomfield is positioned at 39 55 55 N 105 3 57 W (39.931817, -105.065919). The altitude in Broomfield ranges from 5,096 up to 5,856 feet. According to the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 34 square miles (88 km2), of which 33 square miles (85 km2) is territory and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) (1.7%) is water. It is the smallest county by region in Colorado and the 5th smallest in the United States.
Broomfield is the second most densely populated county in Colorado behind Denver. Broomfield has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification BSk).
Of the 54 days each year that Broomfield reaches 90 F (32 C) or higher, approximately 8 of those days are 100 F (38 C) or warmer. In comparison, Denver sees just 31 days of 90 F (32 C) temperatures. Broomfield also experiences 8 severaler days of weather below 32 F (0 C) than Denver each year. The USDA lists Broomfield as a town/city inside the 6a plant hardiness zone. Climate data for Broomfield, Colorado The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.1 percent White, 11.1 percent Hispanic or Latino, 6.1 percent Asian, 2.1 percent from two or more competitions, 1.1 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, and 0.1 percent Pacific Islander.
There were 22,016 homeholds of which 41.2 percent had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8 percent were married couples living together, 8.2 percent had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 25.8 percent were non-families.
Age distribution figures show 26.2 percent of inhabitants under the age of 18 and 9.9 percent age 65 years or older.
Since the county was formed in 2001, it has been a swing county, and the town/city itself had voted for the winning candidate in each presidential election from 2000 to 2012.
Broomfield County vote In the 1990s, Broomfield and other region suburbs experienced tremendous economic growth, much of it concentrated in technology.
The Broomfield Enterprise is the small-town newspaper.
Fields are headquartered in Broomfield.
According to Broomfield's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 8 City and County of Broomfield 581 Broomfield has an extensive trail fitness that joins the various lakes and parks.
Broomfield also has a 9/11 memorial including a piece of a steel beam from one of the towers.
Broomfield also has a skate park with many different features such as bowls, a large half pipe and a several "street" obstacles.
City & County Manager - Charles Ozaki City & County Attorney - William A.
Since Broomfield used to be divided among four counties, students living in the town/city were served by the separate school districts for their county.
While the town/city is now united inside one county, the town/city is still separated among multiple school districts.
The chief school districts in Broomfield are Adams Twelve Five Star Schools and Boulder Valley School District.
Broomfield features two large enhance high schools (Broomfield High School, which underwent momentous renovations from 2009 to 2010, and Legacy High), two enhance middle schools and eight enhance elementary schools.
There are three private schools: Broomfield Academy, with an academic preschool, an elementary school and a middle school; Holy Family, a Catholic high school; and Nativity of Our Lord Parish, a Catholic elementary school.
Broomfield also contains a K-12 charter school, Front Range Academy, which has two Broomfield campuses.
Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Broomfield or both include: Dianne Primavera (1950- ), Colorado state legislator United Kingdom Broomfield and Kingswood, Kent, United Kingdom Japan Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (became a sister town/city after the former town of Maruko became part of the new town/city of Ueda on March 6, 2006, although Ueda only wanted to be friends.) "Colorado Municipal Incorporations".
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