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Colorado municipalities
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The 271 incorporated municipalities of the State of Colorado operate under one of five types of municipal governing authority granted by the state.[1][2]
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The City and County of Denver is the more populous of the two Consolidated City and County governments in the State of Colorado.
Only Denver and Broomfield have consolidated city and county governments:
- The City and County of Denver operates under Article XX, Section 4 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado; and Title 30, Article 11, Section 101 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Denver has an elected Mayor and a City Council of 13 members with 11 members elected from council districts and two members elected at large. Denver is one of the few cities in the world to have both a Police Department and a Sheriff's Department.
- The City and County of Broomfield operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado. Broomfield has an appointed City and County Manager, an elected Mayor, and a City Council of 11 members composed of the Mayor and two members elected from each of five wards.
The City of Colorado Springs is the most populous Home Rule Municipality in the State of Colorado.
Colorado has 59 cities and 28 towns that are Home Rule Municipalities:
- Colorado Home Rule Municipalities are self-governing under Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado; Title 31, Article 1, Section 202 of the Colorado Revised Statutes; and the Home Rule Charter of each municipality. The Home Rule Charter determines the form of government. A Colorado Home Rule Municipality may declare itself to be either a city or a town.
Colorado has 14 Statutory Cities:
- Colorado Statutory Cities operate under Title 31, Article 1, Section 203 and Article 4, Section 100 or Section 200 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Statutory Cities have an elected Mayor and a City Council composed of the Mayor and two members elected from each ward. A Statutory City may petition to reorganize as a Section 200 Statutory City with an appointed City Manager and a City Council with two members elected from each ward and one member elected at large. The Mayor may be the City Council member elected at large or the City Council may appoint a Mayor.
Colorado has 167 Statutory Towns:
- Colorado Statutory Towns operate under Title 31, Article 1, Section 203 and Article 4, Section 300 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Statutory Towns have an elected Mayor and a Board of Trustees composed of the Mayor and four or six additional members elected at large.
Georgetown is the only Colorado municipality that still operates under a charter from the Territory of Colorado:
- The Town of Georgetown operates under Article XIV, Section 13 of the Charter & Constitution of the Colorado Territory. The town mayor is called the Police Judge and the town council is called the Board of Selectmen.
Colorado law makes relatively few distinctions between a city and a town. In general, cities are more populous than towns, although the Town of Parker and the Town of Castle Rock have more than 35,000 residents each, while the City of Black Hawk has fewer than 120 residents. The Town of Garden City, the Town of Lake City, the Town of Orchard City, and the Town of Sugar City are statutory towns despite the word City at the end of their name.
Village and township are not civil divisions in the State of Colorado, although the City of Cherry Hills Village, the City of Greenwood Village, the Town of Log Lane Village, the Town of Mountain Village, and the Town of Snowmass Village have the word Village at the end of their names. Several resort communities use the word Village to describe their central business district.
The following sortable table lists each of the 271 incorporated municipalities of the State of Colorado with the following information:
- The place name of the municipality,[1][3]
- The official name of the municipality,[1]
- The counties in which the municipality resides,[1][4][5]
- The original date of municipal incorporation,[6]
- The current form of municipal government,[1][2]
- The rank among Colorado municipalities by population as of 2006-07-01, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau,[7]
- The municipal population as of 2006-07-01, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau,[7]
- The municipal population as of 2000-04-01, as counted by the United States Census 2000,[7] and
- The percent population change from 2000-04-01, to 2006-07-01, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau.[7]
- Colorado metropolitan areas
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- List of counties in Colorado
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- ^ a b c d e Active Colorado Municipalities (HTML). State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs (2007-02-27). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ a b Colorado Local Government by Type (HTML). State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs (2007-02-27). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ ZIP Code Lookup (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service (2007-02-27). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ 5% Public Use Microdata Sample Equivalency (PUMEQ5) file: Colorado (text file). PUMEQ5 datafiles. United States Census Bureau, Population Division (2003-09-04). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ Geographic Change Notes (HTML). Census Geography. United States Census Bureau, Population Division (2006-05-19). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ Colorado Municipal Incorporations (HTML). State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives (2004-12-01). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
- ^ a b c d Table 4: Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places in Colorado, Listed Alphabetically: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 (CSV). 2006 Population Estimates. United States Census Bureau, Population Division (2007-06-28). Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ Ault was incorporated as Bergdorf.
- ^ Aurora was incorporated as Fletcher.
- ^ Blue River is served by the Breckenridge Post Office.
- ^ Bonanza is served by the Villa Grove Post Office.
- ^ Bonanza was incorporated as Bonanza City.
- ^ Boulder was incorporated as Boulder City.
- ^ Brookside is served by the Cañon City Post Office.
- ^ The City and County of Broomfield was consolidated on 2001-11-15.
- ^ Castle Pines North is served by the Castle Rock Post Office.
- ^ Columbine Valley is served by the Littleton Post Office.
- ^ Commerce City was incorporated as Commerce Town.
- ^ Denver was incorporated as Denver City.
- ^ The City and County of Denver was consolidated on 1902-11-15.
- ^ Dinosaur was incorporated as Artesia.
- ^ Golden was incorporated as Golden City.
- ^ Lakeside is served by the Denver Post Office.
- ^ Mount Crested Butte is served by the Crested Butte Post Office.
- ^ Mountain View is served by the Denver Post Office.
- ^ Parachute was incorporated as Grand Valley.
- ^ Raymer is served by the New Raymer Post Office.
- ^ a b c Saguache is pronounced IPA: /səˈwɑɪtʃ/. This name comes from a Ute language word meaning "blue earth" or "water at blue earth". The Spanish language version of this name is usually spelled Saguache, while the English language version is usually spelled Sawatch.
- ^ Sawpit is served by the Placerville Post Office.
- ^ Telluride was incorporated as Columbia.
- ^ Williamsburg is served by the Florence Post Office.
