Larimer County

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Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins
Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins
administration
US state : Colorado
Administrative headquarters : Fort Collins
Foundation : 1861
Demographics
Residents : 299,630  (2010)
Population density : 44.5 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 6822 km²
Water surface : 84 km²
map
Map of Larimer County within Colorado
Website : www.co.larimer.co.us

Larimer County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States . Located in northern Colorado on the Wyoming border, it is named after William Larimer , the founder of Denver . The county seat is Fort Collins .

The Carter Lake

history

The country was populated by the Ute Indians before the arrival of European settlers in the 19th century . There were also Cheyenne and Arapaho settlements on the plains. It was only when French fur hunters appeared that they had to give way.

The area eventually came to the United States with the Louisiana Purchase . With the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the settlers and the Arapaho and Cheyenne, the settlement of the area by the whites began.

Larimer County was established in 1861 as one of the original 17 counties in the Colorado Territory. From the beginning it was controversial whether the county was bounded west by the Medicine Bow Mountains or the Continental Divide . In 1886 the highest court in Colorado had to make a decision that finally established the watershed as Larimer's border. In 1909 the land between the two mountain ranges was added to what is now Jackson County . The county's development was dominated by the establishment of the Denver Pacific Railroad and the turnaround in agriculture after the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Like most northern Colorado counties, Larimer County is more agricultural. In the far northeast of the county is one of the oldest and best-preserved archaeological sites in North America: The Lindenmeier Site is considered the best known evidence of the Folsom culture of prehistoric Paleo-Indians . The finds have been dated to 10,800 Before Present (~ 8850 BC).

Near Loveland is the Devil's Backbone Open Space reserve, where rock formations made of hard Dakota sandstone emerge impressively from the surrounding landscape.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1870 838 -
1880 4892 483.8%
1890 9712 98.5%
1900 12,168 25.3%
1910 25,270 107.7%
1920 27,872 10.3%
1930 33,137 18.9%
1940 35,539 7.2%
1950 43,554 22.6%
1960 53,343 22.5%
1970 89,900 68.5%
1980 149.184 65.9%
1990 186.136 24.8%
2000 251.494 35.1%
2010 299,630 19.1%
Before 1900

1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2000 census , the county had 251,494 people. There were 97,164 households and 63,156 families. The population density was 37 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 91.44 percent white, 0.66 percent African American, 0.66 percent Native American, 1.56 percent Asian, 0.08 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 3.41 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.19 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 8.27 percent of the total population.

Of the 97,164 households, 31.7 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 53.6 percent were married couples living together, 7.9 percent were single mothers. 35.0 percent were not families. 23.4 percent were single households and 6.3 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.99 people.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 23.8 percent of residents under the age of 18, 14.2 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 30.7 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 21.8 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 9.6 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 99.9 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 98.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 48,655 , and the median income for a family is $ 58,866. Males had a median income of $ 40,829 versus $ 27,859 for females. The per capita income was $ 23,689. 9.2 percent of the population and 4.3 percent of families are below the poverty line. This included 6.8 percent of the population under the age of 18 and 4.4 percent of the population aged 65 and over.

Places in Larimer County

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 198150. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011
  3. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
  5. ↑ Excerpt from census.gov ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 31, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov

Web links

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Coordinates: 40 ° 39 ′  N , 105 ° 28 ′  W