Monument, Colorado Monument, Colorado Monument Town Hall and Police Department Monument Town Hall and Police Department Location in El Paso County and the state of Colorado Location in El Paso County and the state of Colorado State Colorado Website Town of Monument The Town of Monument is a statutory town situated at the base of the Rampart Range in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
Monument is bordered by Pike National Forest on the west, Colorado Springs and the United States Air Force Academy to the south, foothills and modern outcroppings to the north, and rolling plains to the east. Monument was first settled as a stop along the Rio Grande Railroad in 1872, and the region was incorporated as a town called Henry's Station in 1879, but the name was later changed to Monument. The town populace was 5,530 at the 2010 United States Census, an increase of 181% from the populace of 1,971 in 2000.
Monument Rock, the formation from which the town derives its name Monument's first homesteaders appeared in 1865 to mark out the town's preliminary shape, but settlement increased when Monument became a stop along the Rio Grande Railroad in 1872.
The region was incorporated as a town called Henry's Station, after prominent settler Henry Limbach, on June 2, 1879, and the first town meeting was held July 3, 1879. However, three years later the name was changed to Monument after Monument Creek and Monument Rock in the west. The first records of the town can be found in various volumes in the El Paso County Courthouse dating back to 1872. With the help of the barns , which brought in necessities, citizens started small businesses and started to problematic a town.
Monument is positioned at 39 04 52 N 104 51 45 W. It is north of Colorado Springs and the United States Air Force Academy, and east of the Rampart Range, which is the easterly front range of the Rocky Mountains.
Monument Creek, a gentle mountain stream beginning in the Rampart Range, eventually tumbles down through Palmer Lake and the west side of Monument to turn into one of the chief waterways flowing south through Colorado Springs. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Monument has a total region of 4.6 square miles (12 km2), all of it land.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 32.9% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 38.3% from 25 to 44, 17.7% from 45 to 64, and 4.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
A welcome sign outside of Monument Monument has a home rule charter government.
This means that the governmental policy is established in a commission and then voted upon by the town council and board of trustees. In this case, the Charter has provided for a council-manager form of government.
The mayor is considered part of the town council, and has the same power as a council member.
Council members are propel for overlapping 4 year terms, and the mayor is propel for four years as well.
By Colorado law, Monument is a school-choice community.
Because of this, there are opportunities for enhance schools, private schools, charter schools, and home schooling groups. The enhance school fitness is Lewis-Palmer School District 38.
The Lewis-Palmer District ACT scores (at 23) are about 20% higher than the average state scores (at 19) in the two high schools (Palmer Ridge and Lewis-Palmer High Schools). The Lewis-Palmer precinct as a whole performs 15-20% better on CSAP tests than the Colorado state average. There are five enhance elementary schools in District 38: Lewis-Palmer Elementary, Palmer Lake Elementary, Kilmer, Prairie Winds Elementary, and Bear Creek Elementary.
Monument Academy is the only charter school and serves grades K through 8.
Monument's commerce is made up mostly of small businesses, not larger scale manufacturers.
Individually owned shops and services positioned in the downtown's Monument Plaza offer a unique blend of shopping, all inside walking distance of one another.
Located off Highway 105, shoppers will find arcades, home decor, book and specialty stores, as well as restaurants and experienced service businesses. Jackson Creek Center, a more recent commercial expansion of the Monument stores that are positioned east of I-25, offers nationwide "big box" chain store shopping (i.e., Walmart, Home Depot, etc.) different with lesser retail and service businesses, as well as office condominiums and restaurants.
The inhabitants of Monument support many different organizations.
It is home to various types of churches, such as Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, and nondenominational. Monument has a several organizations that are unique to the community, and also a several nationwide organizations.
The small-town organizations in Monument and their mission statements include: Tri-Lakes Cares: a community-based non-profit agency serving the Tri-Lakes region in Northern El Paso County, that improves citizens 's lives by providing emergency assistance, self-sufficiency programs and other civil services. Also in Monument are the nationwide organizations: Monument Hill SERTOMA (SERvice TO MAn): To furnish sponsorship of programs to aid the hearing impaired, and many other areas of need inside the Tri-Lakes area, Colorado Springs and El Paso County. Monument is accessed from Interstate 25 at exit 161 and exit 158.
State Highway 105 also runs through Monument.
Climate data for Monument, Colorado.
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Home Rule Charter for the town of Monument, Colorado.
As submitted to the Monument Board of Trustees by the Home Rule Charter Commission.
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