27 Facts About Fort Collins

Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Fort Collins is a midsize college town, home to Colorado State University and Front Range Community College's Larimer campus.

Fort Collins made friends of white settlers who moved into the area, but was pushed out of Colorado in the 1860s.

Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864.

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Camp Fort Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had been recently relocated through the region.

The civilian population of Fort Collins, led by local businessman Joseph Mason, led an effort to relocate the county seat to Fort Collins from LaPorte, and they were successful in 1868.

Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969.

Fort Collins is situated at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills of the northern Front Range, approximately 60 miles north of Denver, Colorado, and 45 miles south of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Fort Collins is the fourth most populous city in Colorado and the 156th most populous city in the United States.

Fort Collins' economy has a mix of manufacturing and service-related businesses.

Fort Collins manufacturing includes Woodward Governor, Anheuser-Busch, Walker Mowers, and Otterbox.

Much of Fort Collins's culture is centered around the students of Colorado State University.

Fort Collins Museum, established in 1941, is a regional center focusing on the culture and history of Fort Collins and the surrounding area.

Additionally, Fort Collins is home to a whitewater park alongside the Poudre River.

The current mayor of Fort Collins is Jeni Arndt, who was elected to a first term in April 2021.

Fort Collins is the largest city in Colorado's 2nd Congressional district, and is represented in Congress by Representative Joe Neguse .

Fort Collins is additionally the county seat of Larimer County, and houses county offices and courts.

Poudre School District includes four comprehensive high schools that serve neighborhoods around Fort Collins, including Fort Collins High School, Rocky Mountain High School, Poudre High School, Fossil Ridge High School.

Fort Collins once had a municipally owned trolley service with three branches from the intersection of Mountain and College avenues.

Fort Collins is connected to Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont, and Boulder via the FLEX regional bus route.

Fort Collins is the northernmost stop on the North Line, which connects southward to Denver.

Fort Collins would be the northern terminus of the proposed north-south Front Range Passenger Rail corridor to Pueblo.

The City of Fort Collins encourages use of alternative transportation, like cycling and using public transit, through FC Moves.

Parcel service for Fort Collins is provided by FedEx, Airport Express, DHL, Burlington Air Express, UPS, and Purolator.

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Fort Collins has two-day rail freight access to the West Coast or the East Coast and has eight motor freight carriers.

Fort Collins is known along with Marceline, Missouri as one of the towns that inspired the design of Main Street, U S A inside the main entrance of the many "Disneyland"-style parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world.