Fort Collins, Colorado "Fort Collins"
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Fort Collins, Colorado Downtown "Old Town" Fort Collins Downtown "Old Town" Fort Collins Flag of Fort Collins, Colorado Location of Fort Collins shown inside the State of Colorado Location of Fort Collins shown inside the State of Colorado Fort Collins is the Home Rule Municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is positioned 65 miles (105 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
With a 2016 estimated populace of 161,000, it is the fourth most crowded city in Colorado after Denver, Colorado Springs, and Aurora.
Fort Collins is a midsize college city, home to Colorado State University.
Fort Collins was established as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864.
Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood finished the camp in June 1864. Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O.
Collins, suggesting that a site a several miles farther down the river would make a good locale for the fort.
Nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of Fort Collins.
The initial fort site is now adjoining to the present historic "Old Town" portion of the city.
The civilian populace of Fort Collins, led by small-town businessman Joseph Mason, led an accomplishment to relocate the governmental center of county to Fort Collins from La - Porte, and they were prosperous in 1868. The 1880s saw the assembly of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the expansion of a distinct ive identity for Fort Collins.
Poudre Valley Bank, at Linden and Walnut, Fort Collins, Colorado (1908) Along with revitalization came many changes, including the method of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new town/city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954. Similarly, Colorado State University's enrollment doubled amid the 1960s, making it the city's major economic force by the end of the century.
Fort Collins attained a reputation as a very conservative town/city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political copy in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969. During that same period, civil rights activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city, including the burning of a several buildings on the CSU campus. During the late 20th century, Fort Collins period quickly to the south, adding new development, including a several county-wide malls. Management of town/city growth patterns became a political before ity amid the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority. In late July 1997, the town/city experienced a flash flood after and amid a 31-hour reconstructionwhen 10 14 in (250 360 mm) of precipitation fell.
Fort Collins, facing west (1875) Fort Collins is situated at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills of the northern Front Range approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Denver, Colorado and 45 miles (72 km) south of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Cache La Poudre River and Spring Creek run through Fort Collins.
Fort Collins Located along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Fort Collins experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk), with four distinct seasons and low annual precipitation.
Climate data for Fort Collins, Colorado (1981 2010 normals) Fort Collins is the fourth most crowded city in Colorado and the 156th most crowded city in the United States.
The Enumeration Bureau estimates that the city's populace was 161,175 in 2015, the populace of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Travel Destination was 310,487 (151st most crowded MSA), and the populace of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4,495,181.
Fort Collins has a council-manager form of government.
The current mayor of Fort Collins is Wade Troxell, propel in April 2015.
Fort Collins is the biggest city in Colorado's 2nd Congressional district, and is represented in Congress by Representative Jared Polis (Democrat).
On the state level, the town/city lies in the 14th precinct of the Colorado Senate, represented by John Kefalas and is split between the 52nd and 53rd districts of the Colorado House of Representatives, represented by Joann Ginal and Jennifer Arndt, in the order given.
All three of Fort Collins' state legislators are Democrats.
Fort Collins is extraly the governmental center of county of Larimer County, and homes county offices and courts.
The 2004 Colorado Brewers Festival in Fort Collins Fort Collins historic precinct Much of Fort Collins's culture is centered on the students of Colorado State University.
The town/city provides school year residences for its large college-age population; there is a small-town music circuit which is influenced by its college town atmosphere and is home to a number of well known microbreweries.
The Fort Collins Lincoln Center is home to the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra and regularly attracts nationwide touring companies of Broadway plays.
The city's grow beer culture supports many microbreweries: the New Belgium Brewing Company, the Odell Brewing Company, the Fort Collins Brewery, Equinox Brewing, Funkwerks, Horse & Dragon Brewery, Pateros Creek Brewing Company, Zwei Brewing, 1933 Brewing, Snowbank Brewing, Rally King Brewing, Jessup Farm Barrel House, Mc - Clellan's Brewing, Soul Squared Brewing, Three Four Brewing Company and Maxline Brewing.
The Colorado Brewer's Festival is held in late June annually in Fort Collins.
The Colorado Marathon is a annual event running down the Poudre Canyon and finishing in downtown Fort Collins.
The principal venue for the performing arts in Fort Collins is the Lincoln Center, 417 W.
It is home to many small-town arts groups, including the Fort Collins Symphony, Opera Fort Collins, Canyon Concert Ballet, Larimer Chorale, Youth Orchestra of the Rockies, Open - Stage Theatre and Company, Foothills Pops Band and the Fort Collins Children's Theatre.
The Fort Collins Museum, established in 1941, is a county-wide center focusing on the culture and history of Fort Collins and the encircling area.
The Fort Collins Museum homes over 30,000 artifacts and features temporary and permanent exhibits, on-going educational programs and affairs, and is home to four historic structures positioned in the outside Heritage Courtyard.
The arts are represented by The Center for Fine Art Photography, University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins Museum of Art (FCMOA), the Arts Incubator of the Rockies (AIR), and the Bas Bleu Theatre Company.
There are also many parks in Fort Collins including improve parks and neighborhood parks, totaling 875 acres (354 ha) of advanced park areas. Some of these parks have facilities such as enhance tennis courts, frisbee golf courses, golf courses, dog parks, baseball diamonds, basketball courts and picnic shelters.
Fort Collins has gathered many top rankings in recent years for health, well-being, and character of life.
In 2011, Allstate Insurance listed Fort Collins as "America's Safest Driving City" in their annual "Best Drivers Report". In 2006, Money ranked Fort Collins as the best place to live in America, Main article: Media in Fort Collins, Colorado One daily newspaper, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, is presented in the city.
Several niche publications, including the Fort Collins Courier and Fossil Creek Current, are distributed for no-charge at small-town businesses and by mail.
The town/city of Fort Collins prints the "Recreator," a prominent cyclic guide to recreational activities and facilities in Fort Collins.
The Northern Colorado Business Report is also homed in Fort Collins, and is the biggest business-to-business journal in Northern Colorado.
Colorado State University funds a student-run airways broadcast that focuses on underground and small-town music, KCSU-FM; and KRFC is the small-town Front Range Public Radio, a volunteer airways broadcast.
One small-town tv station provided coverage of Fort Collins and the encircling area, No - Co Channel 5, a CBS affiliate, until the a new station owner decided to shutter operations.
Fort Collins has Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels.
City Cable 14 is the small-town Government-access tv (GATV) cable channel, and broadcasts town/city and county meetings, as well as studio-produced small-town programming.
Poudre School District and Colorado State University each have enhance access stations as well.
There is also a Fort Collins Public Access Network (PAN) station, channel 97 on Comcast, which broadcasts 24 hours a day.
The precinct operates and manages the enhance schools in the town/city of Fort Collins, as well as in the encircling towns of Wellington, Timnath, Windsor, Laporte and Livermore.
Poudre School District includes four elected high schools that serve neighborhoods around Fort Collins, including Fort Collins High School, Rocky Mountain High School, Poudre High School, Fossil Ridge High School.
Those include Centennial High School, Polaris School for Expeditionary Learning School, Poudre Community Academy and Poudre School District Global Academy, a dual in-person/online school.
Additionally, four enhance charter schools are chartered through PSD, including Ridgeview Classical Schools, and Liberty Common High School, Mountain Sage Community School and Fort Collins Montessori School.
The Poudre School District is also home to ten middle schools, including Lesher Middle IB World School, Blevins Middle School, Boltz Middle School, Cache La Poudre Middle School, Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School, Lincoln IB World Middle School, Polaris Expeditionary Learning School, Preston Middle School, Webber Middle School, and Wellington Middle School.
Colorado state law mandates Schools of Choice, meaning that parents can opt their child into any school in the precinct beyond their assigned neighborhood school, if space is available.
In addition to PSD schools, a several state charter schools serve Fort Collins, including T.R.
The Fort Collins Public Library was established in 1900, the sixth enhance library in the state. The town/city received $12,500 from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to build the library, with the condition that it would be maintained as a no-charge enhance library.
The precinct operates three chapters: the Old Town Library is positioned in downtown Fort Collins; the Harmony library is hosted at Front Range Community College; and the Council Tree Library, which opened in 2009, is at the Front Range Village Shopping Center.
The library participates in cooperative projects with the small-town school precinct and Colorado State University.
Fort Collins has a range of research institutes.
Fort Collins' economy has a mix of manufacturing and service-related businesses.
Fort Collins manufacturing includes Woodward Governor, Anheuser-Busch, and Otterbox.
Many high-tech companies have relocated to Fort Collins because of the resources of Colorado State University and its research facilities.
Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, Avago, Beckman Coulter, National Semiconductor, LSI, Rubicon Water and Pelco all have offices in Fort Collins.
The biggest employers of Fort Collins inhabitants at the turn of the century were the following: City of Fort Collins, CO (1,864) Regional economic evolution partners include the City of Fort Collins Economic Health Office, Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation, Small Business Development Center, and Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative (RMI2).
In 2015, Fort Collins ranked No.
The Fort - ZED region encompasses the Downtown region of Fort Collins and the chief campus of Colorado State University.
Fort Collins as seen from orbit by Landsat Data Continuity Mission Allegiant Air offered regular passenger aircraft service into the close-by Fort Collins / Loveland Airport, but the airline ended commercial flights to this airport.
Fort Collins can be approached from Denver by car via Interstate 25 or by way of the RTD bus fitness and the FLEX county-wide bus line.
The city's former general aviation airport, known as Fort Collins Downtown Airport (3 - V5), opened in 1966 and closed in 2006. Fort Collins's downtown streets form a grid with Interstate 25 running north and south on the east side of the city.
The town/city bus system, known as Transfort, operates more than a dozen routes throughout Fort Collins Monday through Saturday, except primary holidays.
The MAX Bus Rapid Transit is a bus rapid transit that provides service on the Mason Corridor Transitway alongside to College Avenue from Downtown Fort Collins to a transit center just south of Harmony Road.
Fort Collins is connected to Loveland, Berthoud, and Longmont via the FLEX county-wide bus route.
Bicycling is a prominent and viable means of transit in Fort Collins.
There are more than 280 miles (450 km) of designated bikeways in Fort Collins, including on street designated bike lanes, and the Spring Creek and Poudre River Trails, both paved.
The Fort Collins Bicycle Library lends bicycles to visitors, students, and inhabitants looking to explore the town/city of Fort Collins.
The Bike Library is centrally positioned in the heart of downtown Fort Collins in Old Town Square.
In 2013 the League of American Bicyclists designated Fort Collins as a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community one of four in the United States. Fort Collins also once had a municipally owned street car service with three chapters from the intersection of Mountain and College avenues.
In 1983 84, a portion of the Mountain Avenue line and one of the initial street car cars, Car 21, were restored as a tradition street car service, under the same name used by the initial system, the Fort Collins Municipal Railway. This has been in operation since the end of 1984 on weekends and holidays in the spring and summer, as a tourist- and cultural/educational attraction small fee applies to ride.
Parcel service for Fort Collins is provided by Fed - Ex, Airport Express, DHL, Burlington Air Express, UPS, and Purolator.
Fort Collins has two-day rail freight access to the West Coast or the East Coast and has eight motor freight carriers.
Poudre Valley Hospital has helped make Fort Collins into a county-wide community care center On April 2, 2011 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) announced plans to build a Temple in Fort Collins Fort Collins is known along with Marceline, Missouri as one of the suburbs that inspired the design of Main Street, U.S.A.
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Fort Collins was the setting of the continuing Balloon boy hoax of October 15, 2009.
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