240px, An enlargeable map of the 13-county North Central Colorado Urban Area
The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the four contiguous
metropolitan statistical areas
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or tow ...
in the north central region of the
State of Colorado: the
Denver–Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, the
Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area, the
Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the
Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area
Weld County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 328,981. The county seat is Greeley.
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Elbert County Elbert County is the name of two counties in the United States:
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* Elbert County, Georgia
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, southeastern
Park County, and tiny portions of southern
Douglas County, the entire North Central Colorado Urban Area is drained by the
South Platte River
The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River. Flowing through the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska, it is itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest/ Mountain West. It ...
and its tributaries. The North Central Colorado Urban Area is the central, and the most populous, of the three primary subregions of the
Front Range Urban Corridor.
The North Central Colorado Urban Area had a population of 3,390,504 at the
2010 United States Census
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, a 17.67% increase from the
2000 United States Census
The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...
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In 2010, 67.42% of Coloradans lived in the North Central Colorado Urban Area.
Extent
Constituent jurisdictions
The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises:
See also
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Index of Colorado-related articles
This is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. State of Colorado.
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Bibliography of Colorado
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America
This is a bibliography of the U.S. State of Colorado.
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Colorado statistical areas
The U.S. state of Colorado has twenty-one statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States ...
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Front Range Urban Corridor
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South Central Colorado Urban Area
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Geography of Colorado
The geography of the U.S. State of Colorado is diverse, encompassing both rugged mountainous terrain, vast plains, desert lands, desert canyons, and mesas. Colorado is a landlocked U.S. state. In 1861, the United States Congress defined the ...
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History of Colorado
The region that is today the U.S. State of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major ...
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List of counties in Colorado
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List of places in Colorado
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List of census-designated places in Colorado
The U.S. has 210 census-designated places. The United States Census Bureau defines certain unincorporated communities as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each decennial census. The Census Bureau defined 187 CDPs in Colorado ...
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List of forts in Colorado
This is a list of military and trading forts established in the U.S. State of Colorado.
History
The initial forts, built in the first half of the 19th century, were early communities of commerce between Native Americans, trappers, and trader ...
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List of ghost towns in Colorado
This is a list of some ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist. Due to incomplete records and legends that are now accepted as fact, no exhaustive l ...
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List of mountain passes in Colorado
This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado.
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Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
Mountain summit highways
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List of mountain peaks of Colorado
This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado.
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a m ...
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List of municipalities in Colorado
The U.S. State of Colorado has 272 active incorporated municipalities, comprising 197 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) ...
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Protected areas of Colorado
References
External links
Colorado state government websiteColorado tourism websiteHistory Colorado website
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Metropolitan areas of Colorado
