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The name Colorado was chosen because it was commonly believed that the Colorado River originated in the territory. In 1776, Spanish priest Silvestre Vélez de Escalante recorded that Native Americans in the area knew the river as el Rio Colorado for the red-brown silt that the river carried from the mountains.
This USA map with states and cities colorizes all 50 states in the United States of America. It includes selected major, minor, and capital cities including the nation’s capital city of Washington, DC.
Carl "Bev" Bledsoe - The longest serving Speaker of the Colorado State House of Representatives was a rancher from Hugo. Bledsoe, a Republican , was first elected to the state legislature in 1972 and served as Speaker from 1981 to 1991.
Louisville is located in southeastern Boulder County. U.S. Highway 36 (the Denver-Boulder Turnpike) forms the southwest border of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.0 square miles (20.7 km 2), of which 7.9 square miles (20.4 km 2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 1.35%, is water. [19]
Brighton is a home rule municipality city located in Adams and Weld counties, Colorado, United States. [1] Brighton is the county seat of Adams County and a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. [6]
Loveland is situated 46 miles (74 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver and is the 14th most populous city in Colorado. As of the 2020 census the population of Loveland was 76,378. [ 8 ] The city forms part of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor .
