Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The city had an estimated population of 478,221 in 2019, and a metro population of approximately 738,939, making it Colorado’s second most populous city, behind Denver. The Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples were the first recorded inhabiting the area which would become Colorado Springs. It served as the capital of the Colorado Territory from November 5, 1861, until August 14, 1862, when the capital was moved to Golden.
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Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The city had an estimated population of 478,221 in 2019, and a metro population of approximately 738,939, making it Colorado’s second most populous city, behind Denver. The Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples were the first recorded inhabiting the area which would become Colorado Springs. It served as the capital of the Colorado Territory from November 5, 1861, until August 14, 1862, when the capital was moved to Golden, before it was finally moved to Denver in 1867. In 2020, Colorado Springs ranked #13 on the New York Times 52 Places to Go list and #10 in TripAdvisor’s Top 25 Trending Destinations. In 2018 U. S. News named it the most desirable place to live in the United States, and the previous year it placed second on U.S. News’s list of the 125 Best Places to Live in the USA. The United States Air Force Academy opened just north of Colorado Springs in 1958. The former WWII Army Air Base, Peterson Field, was re-opened at the end of the war, which had been opened in 1951 as the Cold War Air Force headquarters for ADCOM. Between 1965 and 1965, the city was the headquarters for NORAD’s NORADAD Command. It is home to 24 national sports governing bodies, including the United. States Olympic Committee, the United United States Olympic Training Center, and USA Hockey.
Colorado Springs is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises 14,115 feet above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. In 1859, after the first local settlement was established, it became part of the Jefferson Territory on October 24 and of El. Paso County on November 28. By 1898, it was designated into quadrants by the north-south Cascade Avenue and the east-west WashingtonPike’s Peak avenues. The city is in the Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong region of urban population along the front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming, generally following Interstate 25. In the early 1870s, many immigrants from England had settled in Colorado Springs and it was locally referred to as “Little London.” In 1891 the Broadmoor Land Company built the Broad moor suburb, which included the BroadMoor Casino, and by December 12, 1895, it had four Mining Exchanges and 275 mining brokers. In 1925, Alexander Airport north of the city opened in 1925. In 1927 the original Colorado Springs Municipal Airport land was purchased in 1927. In November 1942, the original World War II Air Forces leased land adjacent to the municipalfield, naming it Peterson Field in December 1942. In 1950, the Air Force Base was selected as Cold War Base for Air Defense Command. The 1950s through 1970s saw a continued expansion of the military presence in the area, with the establishment of NORAD’s headquarters in the city, as well.
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