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Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western, Southwestern, Midwestern, and Central regions of the United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the state population was 4,753,377 in 2006, a 10.49% increase since U.S. Census 2000. Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. Citizens of Colorado are known as Coloradans.
The State of Colorado is defined as the geospherical rectangle that stretches from 37°N to 41°N latitude and from 102°03’W to 109°03’W longitude (25°W to 32°W from the Washington Meridian). Colorado is one of only three U.S. states (with Wyoming and Utah) that have only lines of latitude and longitude for boundaries.
The summit of Mount Elbert at 4401 meters (14,440 feet) elevation in Lake County is the state’s highest point and the highest point in the entire Rocky Mountains. Colorado has approximately 550 mountain peaks that exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet) elevation. Colorado is the only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1000 meters (3281 feet) elevation. The state’s lowest elevation is 1010 meters (3315 feet) at the point on the eastern boundary of Yuma County where the Arikaree River flows into the State of Kansas.
East of the Southern Rocky Mountains are the Colorado Eastern Plains of the High Plains, the section of the Great Plains within Colorado at elevations ranging from 3315 to 6562 feet (1010 to 2000 meters). The states of Kansas and Nebraska border Colorado to the east. The plains are sparsely settled with most population along the South Platte and the Arkansas rivers. Rainfall is meager, averaging from 12 to 18 inches (300 to 450 millimeters) annually. There is some irrigated farming, but much of the land is used for dryland farming or ranching. Winter wheat is a typical crop and most small towns in the region boast both a water tower and a grain elevator.
The bulk of Colorado’s population lives along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the Front Range Urban Corridor. This region is partially protected from prevailing storms by the high mountains to the west.
To the west lies the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains with notable peaks such as Longs Peak, Mount Evans, Pikes Peak, and the Spanish Peaks near Walsenburg in the south. This area drains to the east, is forested, and partially urbanized.

 

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Local News from Colorado Springs Gazette via Yahoo! News

Peyton woman named El Paso County Fair queen

Mar 11, 2010 4:31 am

Brenna Harfert, a 19-year-old Peyton resident, has been crowned the 2010 El Paso County Fair Queen. A 2009 graduate of Peyton High School, Harfert is currently a student at Colorado State University i...

 

SIDE STREETS: It's sink or swim time for Friends of Aquatics' effort to rescue city pools

Mar 10, 2010 6:46 pm

Friends of Aquatics has been keeping swimmers afloat for years. Now it's trying to throw a lifeline to the pools, too. The Colorado Springs nonprofit pays for poor kids to learn to swim and subsidizes...

 

City Council sees a flurry of activity

Mar 10, 2010 6:16 pm

Colorado Springs City Hall was a whirlwind of activity Tuesday. Among the highlights: The city clerk called a special meeting of the liquor board, which will decide Wednesday whether to suspend the l...

 

Utilities speeds up South Slope access

Mar 10, 2010 6:15 pm

After more than a decade of planning and talking, Colorado Springs Utilities will begin building trails this year in the South Slope watershed of Pikes Peak. Bowing to public pressure, Utilities offic...

 

Homeless get place to stash stuff as no-camping enforcement looms

Mar 10, 2010 2:46 pm

Bill Lawson threw open the doors to a large storage space on Tuesday that he hopes will open opportunities to the citys homeless campers as they leave their tents for sturdier structures. That migrati...

 

Woman was shot to death, police say

Mar 10, 2010 5:01 am

Colorado Springs police said the owner of a central Colorado Springs tailor shop was shot to death Monday afternoon. The victim was identified as 56-year-old Yong Glenn. A customer of Yongs Tailor Sho...

 

Local Democrats hire director, lose chairman

Mar 10, 2010 1:30 am

The El Paso County Democratic Party is looking for a new chairman. Jason DeGroot resigned the top job last month and party leaders will meet Saturday to pick his successor. That new chairman will need...

 

COUNTY SEAT blog: As Colorado Springs turns out streetlights, Springs Utilities may spend $1.1 million to remodel

Mar 10, 2010 1:01 am

The city of Colorado Springs may have turned off street lights, yanked the garbage cans out of parks and laid off hundreds of workers. But the folks over at Colorado Springs Utilities , the electric-g...

 

THE COLD CASE FILES: Body found in motel room, 1988

Mar 10, 2010 12:45 am

Each victim is a face frozen in time, haunting investigators whose job it is to bring their killers to justice decades after the trail has gone cold. The Gazette in cooperation with the Colorado Sprin...

 

Springs teen is state spelling champion

Mar 9, 2010 11:31 pm

A Colorado Springs eighth-grader became the state spelling champion on Saturday, earning himself a free trip to compete in May at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Brian King, a stu...

 
 

Local News from The Fort Morgan Times via Yahoo! News

In the courts - County court March 10

Mar 10, 2010 5:29 pm

Defendants appearing in Morgan County Court, paying penalty assessments or assessed default judgments (some subject to victims' assistance, victims' compensation and probationary terms) and charges:

 

Local author shares book, childhood

Mar 10, 2010 5:29 pm

Local author Norma J. Saiter regaled a small group of Brown Bag Lunch participants Tuesday at the Fort Morgan Museum with tales of growing up in northwest Morgan County and her books that came out of ...

 

Rural Solutions promotes film 'To Save a Life' playing in Sterling

Mar 10, 2010 5:29 pm

Rural Solutions is promoting a screening of the movie To Save A Life, which will be showing at the Fox 5 Theater in Sterling from Friday through March 18.

 

Calling off Log Lane election on agenda

Mar 10, 2010 5:15 pm

A resolution to cancel the April 6 Log Lane Village board of trustees and mayor election will head the agenda for the board tonight.

 

Sewage disposal stakeholders meeting Thursday

Mar 10, 2010 5:15 pm

An individual sewage disposal system stakeholders meeting is scheduled for Thursday from 1 to 4 p.

 

Eben Ezer schedules two organ fundraisers

Mar 10, 2010 5:15 pm

Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center is very close to achieving its fundraising goal to restore the pipe organ in All Saints Lutheran Church.

 

Brush Downtown: Two say project too much

Mar 10, 2010 5:14 pm

Two downtown business owners made their opinions known Monday as the Brush City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance involving the revitalization of the 300 and 400 blocks of Edison Stre...

 

Amnesia-stricken author helps students write

Mar 10, 2010 5:14 pm

As Longmont author Rebecah Propst was preparing her speech for Thursday's Morgan County High School Writers Workshop, I realized I'd be speaking to people who were older than me, she said.

 

Community briefs - March 10

Mar 10, 2010 5:14 pm

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On the beat - State Patrol March 9

Mar 9, 2010 5:29 pm

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Local News from The Fort Collins Coloradoan via Yahoo! News

Pat Stryker's fortune recovering, according to latest billionaires list

Mar 11, 2010 7:14 pm

Fort Collins philanthropist Pat Stryker has had a bit of a financial rebound in the past year, according to Forbes magazine's latest billionaire listing, out this week.

 

Workers closer to reopening Interstate 70 after rockslide

Mar 11, 2010 6:59 pm

GLENWOOD SPRINGS Workers are getting ready to reopen Interstate 70 in western Colorado, three days after a rock slide tore gaping holes in an elevated section and littered the highway with boulders.

 

Latest health care pressure on Markey comes from Obama group

Mar 11, 2010 6:44 pm

Organizing for America, President Barack Obama's political arm, on Thursday sent out a blast e-mail in the 4th Congressional District urging its supporters to call Betsy Markey and urge her to vote in...

 

Top things to do in Fort Collins: A three-day planner

Mar 11, 2010 5:29 pm

There's plenty of fun, exciting and great things to do in Fort Collins. Here's a guide to the top events.

 

Study: Foothills Mall redevelopment calls for vibrant midtown mixture in Fort Collins

Mar 11, 2010 12:15 pm

Redevelopment of Foothills Mall could be the linchpin to turning a 3-mile corridor along College Avenue - an area city officials call midtown - into a vibrant mix of residential and retail that is as ...

 

Larimer County unemployment rate increases for second consecutive month

Mar 11, 2010 12:15 pm

The Larimer County unemployment rate jumped for a second consecutive month in January, according to state statistics released Wednesday.

 

Fort Collins, CSU biggest winners of 3A basketball championships

Mar 11, 2010 12:15 pm

Fort Collins has about one million reasons to be thankful that CSU hosts the Class 3A state high school basketball championships each year.

 

Ad campaign aims to persuade Markey to vote against health-care reform bill

Mar 11, 2010 12:15 pm

A coalition of business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will begin an ad blitz today aimed at persuading Rep. Betsy Markey to vote against the Democratic health-care reform bill.

 

Cache La Poudre, Eyestone losing Title I status

Mar 11, 2010 12:15 pm

Two Poudre School District elementary schools will lose federal funding next year for programs designed to help some of the community's neediest students.

 

Dunham fans need to take detour to show

Mar 11, 2010 12:14 pm

Fans attending the sold-out Jeff Dunham show tonight at the Budweiser Events Center should plan to take an alternate route if they are driving north to The Ranch campus.

 
 

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Pine Lakes Ranch Hometown America   CO

This all-ages community provides country living in the heart of the city. Residents at Pine Lakes Ranch ...

 

Holiday Hills Village - ELS   CO

Near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Holiday Hills offers residents mountain views in addition ...

 

Hillcrest Village - ELS   CO

Hillcrest Village is just 15 minutes east of Denver, offering residents a small-town feeling with all ...