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With a population of 108,250 at the 2020 census, it is the most-populous city in the county and the 12th-most populous city in Colorado. Boulder is the principal city of the Boulder metropolitan statistical area, which had 330,758 residents in 2020, and is part of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Colorado municipalities range in population from the City and County of Denver with a 2020 population of 715,522, to the Town of Carbonate, which has had no year-round population since the 1890 Census due to its severe winter weather and difficult access.
Photo Map. Boulder is a college town of about 106,000 in the Front Range region of Colorado. Boulder has about 107,000 residents and an elevation of 5,328 feet.
Boulder, city, seat (1861) of Boulder county, north-central Colorado, U.S., on Boulder Creek, at the base of the Flatiron Range of the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 5,354 feet (1,632 metres), 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Denver. Settled by miners in 1858, it was organized in 1859 and named.
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1858185918611869 - Boulder County Newsbegins publication.1900s-1940s
1. 1902 1.1. Boulder Oil Field wellbegins operation. 1.2. University of Colorado Museum of Natural Historyfounded. 2. 1906 2.1. Curran Opera House opens. 2.2. University of ColoradoCollege of Commerce established. 3. 1907 3.1. Boulder adopts an anti-saloonordinance. 3.2. Carnegie Librarybuilt. 4. 1909 4.1. Denver, Boulder and Western Railroadbegins operating. 4.2. Hotel Boulderadoopens. 5. 1910 - Population: 9,539. 6. 1916 6.1. Statewide prohibition starts in Colorado,ending with the repeal o...
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1. 1950 1.1. Population: 19,999. 2. 1952 2.1. U.S. National Bureau of Standards-Atomic Energy CommissionCryogenic Engineering Laboratory in operation. 2.2. Denver-Boulder Turnpikeopens. 3. 1953 - Colorado Dailyin publication. 4. 1954 - September: U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now known as National Institute of Standards and Technology) facility dedicated. 5. 1955 – Denver Regional Council of Governmentsformed. 6. 1956 - Ball Aerospace& Technologies Corp. (commonly Ball Aerospace), opens....
2002 — Spot Bouldering Gym in business.20042005 — Boulder Adventure Film Festivalbegins.2006Boulder Library. Carnegie Branch Library for Local HistoryDigital Public Library of America. Items related to Boulder, Colorado, various datesBoulder is a city in the state of Colorado, in the United States. It is the county seat of Boulder County. Boulder is in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The city's height is 5,430 feet (1,660 m). It is 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Denver. In 2020, there were 108,250 people living the City of Boulder.
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Boulder is Colorado’s eleventh-most populous city, twenty-five miles northwest of Denver, nestled against the foothills of the Front Range. Home of the University of Colorado (CU), the city has a population of 97,385 and is the seat of Boulder County.
