Pueblo, Colorado Pueblo, Colorado Flag of Pueblo, Colorado Location in Pueblo County and the state of Colorado Location in Pueblo County and the state of Colorado County Pueblo governmental center of county The Pueblo County Courthouse has a large brass top easily seen from Interstate 25 to the east.
The Hotel Vail in downtown Pueblo (completed 1910) represents the second Renaissance Revival style of architecture.
Vail, a Pueblo newspaperman, it was once considered the most undivided hotel west of Chicago, Illinois. Pueblo / pw blo / is a home rule municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The populace was 106,595 in 2010 census, making it the 267th most crowded city in the United States and the 9th biggest in Colorado.
Pueblo is the heart of the Pueblo Metropolitan Travel Destination totaling over 160,000 citizens and an meaningful part of the Front Range Urban Corridor. As of 2014, Pueblo is the major city of the Pueblo-Canon City combined statistical region (CSA) totaling approximately 208,000 citizens , making it the 134th biggest in the nation. Pueblo is situated at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, 112 miles (180 km) south of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
With its locale in the "Banana Belt", Pueblo tends to get less snow than the other primary cities in Colorado.
Pueblo is one of the biggest steel-producing metros/cities in the United States, for which reason Pueblo is referred to as the "Steel City".
The Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) is a river walk in the Union Avenue Historic Commercial District, and shows the history of the devastating Pueblo Flood of 1921.
Pueblo has the least expensive residentiary real estate of all primary cities in Colorado.
The median home price for homes on the market in Pueblo is $147,851 as of February 2013. It is the sixth most affordable place to live in America as calculated by the 2014 Cost of Living Index.
Costs of housing, goods and services, utilities, transportation, food and community care are lower than the nationwide average. Pueblo was listed by AARP in 2013 as one of the Best Places to Live in the USA. 1.1 Fort Pueblo 1.2 Pueblo's Early Development: Railroads, Steel, Expansion 1.5 Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo 12 Pueblo in prominent culture James Beckwourth, George Simpson, and other trappers such as Mathew Kinkead, claimed to have helped construct the plaza that became known as El Pueblo or Fort Pueblo around 1842. George married Juana Maria Suaso and lived there for a year or two before moving; however, Simpson had no legal title to the land.
Pueblo's Early Development: Railroads, Steel, Expansion The current town/city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
Pueblo, South Pueblo, and Central Pueblo legally merged as the City of Pueblo between March 9 and April 6, 1886.
The merged town/city became a primary economic and civil center of Colorado, and was home to meaningful early Colorado families such as the Thatchers, the Ormans, and the Adamses.
Until a series of primary floods culminated in the Great Flood of 1921, Pueblo was considered the 'Saddle-Making capital of the World'.
The chief industry in Pueblo for most of its history was the Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) Steel Mill on the south side of town.
Due to the expansion of the CF&I steel foundry and the employment that it offered, Pueblo in the early twentieth century thriving a large number of immigrant laborers.
The groups represented led to Pueblo becoming the most ethnically and culturally diverse town/city in Colorado and the West.
Another primary employer in Pueblo is the Colorado State Hospital.
Established in 1879 as the Colorado State Insane Asylum, it was retitled as the Colorado State Hospital in 1917.
In 1991, the name was changed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP).
Pueblo is the hometown of four Medal of Honor recipients (more than any other municipality in the United States) - William J.
In 1993, Pueblo City Council adopted the tagline "Home of Heroes" for the town/city due to the fact that Pueblo can claim more recipients of the Medal per capita than any other town/city in the United States.
On July 1, 1993, the Congressional Record recognized Pueblo as the "Home of Heroes." A memorial to the recipients of the medal is at the Pueblo Convention Center.
Pueblo is positioned at 38 16 1 N 104 37 13 W (38.266933, 104.620393). Pueblo is 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and is on the front range of the Rocky Mountains. Pueblo sits in a high desert region of terrain in southern Colorado and is near the edge of the Southwestern Tablelands ecology region.
Pueblo has a steppe climate (Koppen BSk), with four distinct seasons.
Sunshine is abundant throughout the year, with an annual total of nearly 3470, or 78% of the possible total. Pueblo is considered a high desert climate, and sits on the desert lands in southern Colorado between Pueblo and the Royal Gorge.
Climate data for Pueblo, Colorado (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1888 present) According to the 2005 Enumeration estimates, the town/city had grown to an estimated populace of 104,951 and had turn into the ninth most crowded city in the state of Colorado and the 245th most crowded city in the United States.
Pueblo River Walk in 2010 As of the 2010 census, the populace of Pueblo was 106,544 (259th most crowded U.S.
City), the populace of the Pueblo Metropolitan Travel Destination was 159,063 (190th most crowded MSA), the populace of the Pueblo-Canon City, CO Combined Travel Destination was 205,887, the populace of the South Central Colorado Urban Area was 851,500, and the populace of the Front Range Urban Corridor in Colorado was an estimated 4,166,855.
Pueblo is the home of the Federal Citizen Information Center, directed by the General Services Administration, and its Consumer Information Catalog.
For over 30 years, enhance service announcements invited Americans to write for knowledge at "Pueblo, Colorado, 81009".
In recent times GSA has incorporated Pueblo into FCIC's toll-free telephone number.
Vestas Wind Systems has constructed the biggest (nearly 700,000 square feet) wind turbine fortress manufacturing plant in the world at Pueblo's industrialized park.
The biggest solar-energy farm east of the Rocky Mountains is presently under assembly by Xcel Energy in Pueblo.
A number of scientific studies now list Pueblo as the state's major locale for solar energy evolution and the premier setting for solar companies to locate, placing it ahead of county-wide rivals such as Boulder, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico. In February 2017, Pueblo City Council voted to commit the town/city to 100% renewable energy by the year 2035. According to Pueblo's 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Pueblo City Schools District 60 1,800 6 Pueblo County School District 70 1,101 7 Pueblo County 1,064 8 Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo 1,000 9 City of Pueblo 620 Pueblo is the home to Colorado's biggest single event, the Colorado State Fair, held annually in the late summer, and the biggest parade, the state fair parade, as well as an annual Chile & Frijoles Festival. Pueblo Convention Center Pueblo Memorial Hall El Pueblo History Museum Lake Pueblo State Park Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo Pueblo Ice Arena Pueblo Zoo Pueblo is the hometown of Dutch Clark, the first man from Colorado inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.
The major football stadium belonging to Pueblo City Schools is titled for him.
Pueblo is the site of Professional Bull Riders team finals held at the state fair affairs center amid the Colorado State Fair and broadcast athwart the world.
In 2008 the PBR moved its corporate command posts to Pueblo.
The crime rate in Pueblo is higher than the nationwide average.
Pueblo is home to Colorado State University-Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo), a county-wide elected university.
Main article: Pueblo Community College Pueblo Community College (PCC) is a two-year, public, elected community college, one of thirteen improve universities inside the Colorado Community College System (CCCS).
The chief campus is positioned in Pueblo and serves Pueblo County.
The Fremont Campus is positioned approximately 35 miles (56 km) west of Pueblo in Canon City and serves Fremont and Custer Counties.
The Southwest Campus, 280 miles (450 km) southwest of Pueblo, serves Montezuma, Dolores, La Plata, San Juan, and Archuleta counties.
Pueblo County has thirteen high schools.
Pueblo County High School, east of the town/city in Vineland, serves non-urban residents.
Rye High School is in a foothills town southwest of Pueblo.
Pueblo West High School is positioned in the northwestern suburb of Pueblo West.
The former Pueblo Catholic High School became Roncalli middle school in the early 1970s.
It features the only Early College Program in Pueblo recognized by the State of Colorado, where many students graduate with their associate degree from Pueblo Community College while also earning credit from Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Other Pueblo region high schools include Southern Colorado Early College, School of Engineering and Biomedical Science (formerly Pueblo Technical Academy), Parkhill Christian Academy and the Health Academy.
Main article: Media in Pueblo, Colorado The Pueblo West View The Pueblo radio market includes all of Pueblo County. In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population, Arbitron ranked the Pueblo market 238th in the United States. Six AM and 15 FM airways broadcasts broadcast from and/or are licensed to the city. Due to Pueblo's adjacency to Colorado Springs, small-town listeners can also receive the signal of most airways broadcasts transmitting from the Colorado Springs radio market. The City of Pueblo operates Pueblo Transit.
The small-town airport, Pueblo Memorial Airport, lies to the east of the city.
It is home to the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum (named for Fred Weisbrod, late town/city manager), reflecting the airport's beginnings as an Army Air Corps base in 1943. There is a General Aviation field just west of Pueblo West/Penrose.
Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society Dan Rowan, star of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, lived in Mc - Clelland Orphanage in Pueblo and graduated from Pueblo Central High School.
Mentioned Pueblo in many of his journal columns.
Earl (Dutch) Clark, experienced football player 1934 1938, charter member of NFL Hall of Fame, graduated from Pueblo Central High School.
Kory Sperry, NFL tight end; attended Pueblo County High School.
Charles Goodnight, legendary Texas cattleman, lived in Pueblo in the 1870s.
Benjamin Guggenheim, lived in Pueblo at turn of the twentieth century until his death.
Graduated from Pueblo Centennial High School.
Frank De - Simone, Boss of the Los Angeles crime family, born in Pueblo.
Pueblo in prominent culture Pueblo as a frontier town is the setting for Louis L'Amour's 1981 novel Milo Talon.
Many of the scenes in Terrence Malick's 1973 opus Badlands were filmed in and around Pueblo.
The Italian-American protagonist of John Fante's jubilated 1939 poetic novel Ask the Dust, adapted into a film version by Robert Towne in 2006, is from Pueblo.
Pueblo and its Central High School is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 historical novel Against the Day.
The Food Network show Unwrapped is often shot in Pueblo.
Food Wars, a series on cable television's Travel Channel, came to Pueblo to stage a contest between the Sunset Inn's and Gray's Coors Tavern's versions of the slopper.
Pueblo is portrayed as the town/city where Mac - Gruber is laid to rest in 2000 in the 2010 film that bears his name.
In the South Park episode "The Losing Edge", Pueblo is one of the suburbs with which the South Park team competes.
Pueblo is mentioned in the song "Stuart" by the satirical punk modern band Dead Milkmen, as the origin of the pamphlet entitled "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?".
Pueblo is portrayed as a ghostly, radiated ruin in the Darwin's World novel Burning Lands.
Many of the Colorado and Kansas scenes of the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation were filmed in and around Pueblo.
Highway 50 East of Pueblo is the site of Cousin Eddie's home and the hotel in "Creede" Colorado is actually near St.
The 1980s film Curse of the Blue Lights was set in Pueblo and was filmed on location.
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