Greeley, CO
| City of Greeley, Colorado | |
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| Home Rule Municipality | |
The Weld County Courthouse in Greeley
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 Location in Weld County and the State of Colorado |
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| Coordinates: 40°25′N 104°43′W / 40.417°N 104.717°WCoordinates: 40°25′N 104°43′W / 40.417°N 104.717°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Colorado |
| County | Weld |
| Founded | 1869 |
| Incorporated | 1885-11-15 |
| Named for | Horace Greeley |
| Government | |
| • Type | Home Rule Municipality |
| • Mayor | Tom Norton |
| Area | |
| • Total | 30 sq mi (77.7 km2) |
| • Land | 29.9 sq mi (77.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.1 sq mi (0.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,658 ft (1,420 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 92,889 |
| • Estimate (July 2015) | 100,883 |
| • Density | 3,106.6/sq mi (1,198.5/km2) |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| ZIP codes | 80631-80634 & 80638-80639 |
| Area code | 970 |
| FIPS code | 08-32155 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0180649 |
| Highways | US 34, US 85, SH 257, SH 263, SH 392 |
| Website | City of Greeley Colorado |
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The City of Greeley is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Weld County, Colorado, United States. Greeley is in northern Colorado and is situated 49 miles (79 km) north-northeast of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. According to a July 2015 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the city is 100,883, and a 2014 population estimate made Greeley the 12th most populous city in the state of Colorado. Greeley is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
The town was named after Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune, who came to Colorado in the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush. It was founded as the Union Colony in 1869, an experimental utopian society, but the name was later changed in honor of Horace Greeley. Governor Benjamin Harrison Eaton declared Greeley an official city on April 6, 1886.
Greeley was built on farming and agriculture but kept up with most modern technologies as they grew. Telephones were in town by 1883 with electric lights downtown by 1886. Automobiles were on the roads alongside horse drawn buggies by 1910.KFKA became one of the first radio stations to broadcast in the USA in 1922 and the Greeley Municipal Airport was built in 1928. Greeley housed two POW camps in 1943, during World War II. One was for German POWs and the other was for Italian POWs. A vote to allow the sale of alcohol passed by a mere 477 votes in 1969, thus ending Temperance in the city.
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