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about Fort Collins

Fort Collins is a city located in Larimer County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 118,652. It is a large college town (home to Colorado State University) in the north central region of the state, along what is known as the Colorado Front Range.

The downtown post office in Fort Collins is named for Barney Apodaca, a local advocate for the developmentally disabled.

Fort Collins geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 122.1 km² (47.1 mi²). 120.5 km² (46.5 mi²) of it is land and 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.27% water.

Fort Collins history

Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864. A previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache La Poudre River near present-day Laporte, was destroyed by a flood in June 1864. Afterwards, the commandant of the fort wrote to Colonel Collins at Fort Laramie, suggesting that a site several miles further down the Poudre would make a good location for the fort. The fort never had walls.

Settlers began arriving in the vicinity of the fort nearly immediately. The fort was decommissioned in 1868 and the original fort site is now the location of the present dowtown of the city.

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