Colorado is a state located in the Western United States. Colorado currently has 271 incorporated municipalities, comprising 196 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments.
Colorado municipalities operate under one of five types of municipal governing authority.
In the State of Colorado, only Denver and Broomfield have consolidated city and county governments:
Colorado has 61 cities and 35 towns that are home rule municipalities:
Colorado has 12 statutory cities:
Colorado has 160 statutory towns:
The Town of Georgetown is the only municipality that still operates under a charter granted by the Territory of Colorado:
Colorado law makes relatively few distinctions between a city and a town. A Home Rule Municipality may declare itself either a city or a town. In general, cities are more populous than towns, although the towns of Castle Rock and Parker have more than 49,000 residents each, while the City of Black Hawk has fewer than 130 residents.
The City of Central is the only Colorado municipality that does not place its full place name at the end of its municipal name. The towns of Garden City, Lake City, Orchard City, and Sugar City are statutory towns despite the word "city" at the end of their name. The municipality of Creede uses the official title "City of Creede" despite its status as a Colorado statutory town.