Severance (Colorado)
| Town of Severance | |||
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| Location in Colorado | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1906 (1920 inc.) | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Colorado | ||
| County : | Weld County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 32 ′ N , 104 ° 51 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 3,165 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 192.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 16.66 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) of which 16.41 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 1490 m | ||
| Postal code : | 80546 | ||
| Area code : | +1 970 | ||
| FIPS : | 08-69150 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0180531 | ||
| Website : | townofseverance.org | ||
| Mayor : | Donald McLeod | ||
Severance is a town ( Statutory Town ) in Weld County in the north of the US state of Colorado .
history
The name goes back to a pioneer settler. In 1894 David E. Severance applied for a post office for the community with about 50 families, which should be named "Tailholt". However, due to a mistake, the post office was named after the applicant.
In the early 1900s, a subsidy program was launched to convince farmers to grow sugar beet so that a sugar factory could be built in neighboring Windsor . The necessary land was allocated and the Windsor factory was built in 1903 and became the Great Western Sugar Company in 1905. Severance became a sugar beet receiving station on the Great Western Railway of Colorado , which operated until 1985.
The establishment goes back to an action in 1906 by Bruce Eaton, son of the governor Benjamin Eaton . In 1920 the community had enough inhabitants to officially decide to plant the community.
location
Severance is east of the Rocky Mountains on the edge of the Great Plains . The former prairie land is now used intensively for agriculture. The city is connected to Interstate 25 by two state highways and numerous county roads .
population
The United States Census 2010 determined the population to be 3165. For the year 2018, the population was estimated on the official website to be around 5500. The population development shows a strong increase from around the turn of the millennium.
| Severance: Population from 1940 to 2018 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1940 | 138 | |||
| 1950 | 108 | |||
| 1960 | 70 | |||
| 1970 | 59 | |||
| 1980 | 102 | |||
| 1990 | 106 | |||
| 2000 | 597 | |||
| 2010 | 3.165 | |||
| 2018 * | 5,500 | |||
| Data source: United States Census / 2018 *: Severance Town website. | ||||
Curiosities
The city's motto is "Where the Geese Fly and the Bulls Cry" (Where the geese fly and the bulls cry). The flying geese are an indication of an important flight route for the geese, while the "crying bulls" represent the city's claim to be a cosmopolitan city for the dish "Rocky Mountain oyster" (fried veal testicles).
A regulation in Severance from 1920 prohibited throwing stones and other objects at people and animals, among other things - this ban also applied to snowballs. It was only on the initiative of a nine-year-old boy who gave a presentation to the city council and submitted a collection of signatures from his classmates that the regulation was changed in 2018 so that throwing snowballs is no longer prohibited.
Web links
- Severance, Colorado. In: city-data.com. (English, statistical data on Severance).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History. Town of Severance, accessed December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Population and Housing Unit Estimates Tables. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Demographics. Town of Severance, accessed December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Feature Detail Report for: Severance. In: Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
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↑ USA: After 100 years of prohibition in Colorado: Nine-year-old fights for the right to a snowball fight. In: Spiegel Online . December 5, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 . Illegal Snowball Fights: Nine Year Old Fights Law In Colorado. In: rtl.de . December 5, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .