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Fort Collins, Colorado
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Home Rule Municipality in Colorado, United States
Fort Collins, Colorado
Home Rule Municipality
Downtown "Old Town" Fort Collins

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Location of Fort Collins in Larimer County, Colorado.
Coordinates: 40°33′33″N 105°4′41″W / 40.55917°N 105.07806°W / 40.55917; -105.07806Coordinates: 40°33′33″N 105°4′41″W / 40.55917°N 105.07806°W / 40.55917; -105.07806
Country
United States
State
Colorado
County
Larimer
Commissioned
1864
Incorporated
February 12, 1883[1]
Named for
United States Army colonel William O. Collins
Government
• Type
Home Rule Municipality[2]
• Mayor
Wade Troxell
• Mayor pro tem
Gerry Horak
• City Manager
Darin Atteberry
Area[3]
• Total
57.05 sq mi (147.77 km2)
• Land
55.82 sq mi (144.58 km2)
• Water
1.23 sq mi (3.20 km2) 1.27%
Elevation
5,003 ft (1,525 m)
Population (2010)[4]
• Total
143,986 (US:List of United States cities by population
• Estimate (2016)[5]
164,207
• Density
2,941.67/sq mi (1,135.78/km2)
Time zone
MST (UTC−7)
• Summer (DST)
MDT (UTC−6)
ZIP Codes[6]
80521–80528
Area code
970
FIPS code
08-27425
GNIS feature ID
0204673
Highways
I-25, US 287, SH 1, SH 14
Website
fcgov.com
Fourth most populous Colorado city
Fort Collins is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat[2] and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.[7] Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 65 mi (105 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2016 estimated population of 161,000,[8] it is the fourth most populous city in Colorado after Denver, Colorado Springs, and Aurora. Fort Collins is a midsize college city, home to Colorado State University.
Contents
1 History
2 Geography
2.1 Climate
3 Demographics
4 Economy
4.1 Major industries and commercial activity
4.2 Sustainability programs
5 Arts and culture
6 Government
7 Education
7.1 Higher education
8 Media
9 Infrastructure
9.1 Transportation
9.1.1 Air travel
9.1.2 Streets
9.1.3 Transit and taxi
9.1.4 Cycling
9.2 Commercial shipping
9.3 Facilities
9.4 Police
10 Notable people
11 In popular culture
12 Publicity
13 See also
14 References
15 External links
History[edit]
Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864. It succeeded a previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache La Poudre River, near what is known today as Laporte. Camp Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had been recently relocated through the region. Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864.[9] Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort. The post was manned originally by two companies of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and never had walls.[10]
Nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of Fort Collins
Fort Collins, facing west (1875)
Poudre Valley Bank, at Linden and Walnut, in Fort Collins (1908)
Settlers began arriving in the vicinity of the fort nearly immediately. The fort was decommissioned in 1867. The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic "Old Town" portion of the city. The first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867. The civilian population of Fort Collins, led by local businessman Joseph Mason, led an effort to relocate the county seat to Fort Collins from LaPorte, and they were successful in 1868.[10]
The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony. Hundreds of settlers arrived, developing lots just south of the original Old Town. Tension between new settlers and earlier inhabitants led to political divisions in the new town, which was incorporated in 1873. Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879.[11]
The 1880s saw the construction of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the growth of a distinctive identity for Fort Collins. Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries. Beet tops, an industry supported by the college and its associated agricultural experiment station, proved to be an excellent and abundant food for local sheep,[12] and by the early 1900s the area was being referred to as the "Lamb feeding capital of the world." In 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland.[13]
Although the city was affected by the Great Depression and simultaneous drought,[14] it nevertheless experienced slow and steady growth throughout the early part of the twentieth century.[15] During the decade following World War II, the population doubled and an era of economic prosperity occurred. Old buildings were razed to make way for new, modern structures. Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.[16] Similarly, Colorado State University's enrollment doubled during the 1960s,[17] making it the city's primary economic force by the end of the century.
Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades,[18] being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969.[17] During that same period, civil rights activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city, including the burning of several buildings on the CSU campus.[19]
During the late 20th century, Fort Collins expanded rapidly to the south, adding new development, including several regional malls.[19] Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority.[20] In late July 1997, the city experienced a flash flood after and during a 31-hour period when 10–14 in (250–360 mm) of rain fell. The rainfall was the heaviest on record for an urban area of Colorado.[21] Five people were killed and $5 million in damages were dealt to the city. The waters flooded Colorado State University's library and brought about $140 million in damages to the institution.[22]
Geography[edit]
Fort Collins is situated at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills of the northern Front Range approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Denver, Colorado and 45 miles (72 km) south of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Elevation is 4,982 ft (1,519 m) above sea level. Geographic landmarks include Horsetooth Reservoir and Horsetooth Mountain—so named because of a tooth-shaped granite rock that dominates the city's western skyline. Longs Peak can also clearly be seen on a clear day to the southwest of the city.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 47.1 square miles (122 km2), of which 46.5 square miles (120 km2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), or 1.27%, is water. The Cache La Poudre River and Spring Creek run through Fort Collins.
Climate[edit]
Located along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Fort Collins experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with four distinct seasons and low annual precipitation. Summers range from mild to hot, with low humidity and afternoon thunderstorms that frequently threaten but only occasionally deliver rain. Winters range from mild to moderately cold. The city experiences lots of sunshine, with 300 days of sunshine per year and 19 days with 90° + weather. The average temperature in July, the warmest month, is 71 °F (22 °C). The average temperature in January, the coldest month, is 29 °F (−2 °C). Annual snowfall averages 59 inches (1.5 m), and can occur from early September through the end of May. Average precipitation overall is 15.9 inches (400 mm).
hideClimate data for Fort Collins, Colorado (1981–2010 normals)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °F (°C)
73
(23) 76
(24) 81
(27) 89
(32) 97
(36) 102
(39) 103
(39) 100
(38) 97
(36) 88
(31) 81
(27) 76
(24) 103
(39)
Average high °F (°C)
44.2
(6.8) 46.5
(8.1) 54.7
(12.6) 62.2
(16.8) 71.1
(21.7) 80.4
(26.9) 86.6
(30.3) 84.0
(28.9) 75.9
(24.4) 63.9
(17.7) 51.4
(10.8) 42.8
(6) 63.6
(17.6)
Average low °F (°C)
17.5
(−8.1) 20.4
(−6.4) 27.7
(−2.4) 35.1
(1.7) 44.1
(6.7) 52.2
(11.2) 58.0
(14.4) 56.3
(13.5) 47.1
(8.4) 35.9
(2.2) 25.6
(−3.6) 17.2
(−8.2) 36.4
(2.4)
Record low °F (°C)
−38
(−39) −41
(−41) −31
(−35) −10
(−23) 12
(−11) 29
(−2) 36
(2) 32
(0) 18
(−8) −8
(−22) −21
(−29) −35
(−37) −41
(−41)
Average precipitation inches (mm)
0.40
(10.2) 0.42
(10.7) 1.60
(40.6) 2.06
(52.3) 2.43
(61.7) 2.17
(55.1) 1.71
(43.4) 1.60
(40.6) 1.33
(33.8) 1.15
(29.2) 0.76
(19.3) 0.50
(12.7) 16.13
(409.6)
Average snowfall inches (cm)
7.3
(18.5) 6.8
(17.3) 12.1
(30.7) 6.0
(15.2) 0.7
(1.8) 0
(0) 0
(0) 0
(0) 0.9
(2.3) 3.6
(9.1) 8.6
(21.8) 8.4
(21.3) 54.4
(138)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)
4.1 4.9 6.4 8.6 11.2 10.0 9.0 9.4 7.6 6.3 5.2 4.5 87.2
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in)
4.4 5.0 5.3 3.1 0.4 0 0 0 0.4 1.4 4.1 4.7 28.8
Source: NOAA[23]
Demographics[edit]
Historical population
Census
Pop.
%±
1880 1,356 —
1890 2,011 48.3%
1900 3,053 51.8%
1910 8,210 168.9%
1920 8,755 6.6%
1930 11,489 31.2%
1940 12,251 6.6%
1950 14,937 21.9%
1960 25,027 67.6%
1970 43,337 73.2%
1980 65,092 50.2%
1990 87,758 34.8%
2000 118,652 35.2%
2010 143,986 21.4%
Est. 2016 164,207 [5] 14.0%
U.S. Decennial Census[24]
Fort Collins is the fourth most populous city in Colorado and the 158th most populous city in the United States. The Census Bureau estimates that the city's population was 161,175 in 2015, the population of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area was 310,487 (151st most populous MSA), and the population of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4,495,181.
As of the census[25] of 2000, there were 118,652 people, 45,882 households, and 25,785 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,549.3 people per square mile (984.4/km²). There were 47,755 housing units at an average density of 1,026.0 per square mile (396.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 82.4% White, 3.01% Black or African American, 0.60% Native American, 2.48% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 3.61% from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.79% of the population.
There were 45,882 households out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.9% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.8% were non-families. 26.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the city, the population was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 22.1% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 17.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $64,459, and the median income for a family was $89,332. Males had a median income of $60,856 versus $48,385 for females. The per capita income for the city was $32,133. About 5.5% of families and 14.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.3% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over.
Economy[edit]
Major industries and commercial activity[edit]
Fort Collins' economy has a mix of manufacturing and service-related businesses. Fort Collins manufacturing includes Woodward Governor, Anheuser-Busch, and Otterbox. Many high-tech companies have relocated to Fort Collins because of the resources of Colorado State University and its research facilities. Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, Avago, Beckman Coulter, National Semiconductor, LSI, Rubicon Water and Pelco all have offices in Fort Collins. Other industries include clean energy, bioscience, and agri-tech businesses.
The largest employers of Fort Collins residents at the turn of the century were the following:[26]
Colorado State University (6,948 employees)
Hewlett Packard (3,182)
Poudre Valley Health System (3,020)
Poudre School District (3,014)
Agilent (2,800)
City of Fort Collins, CO (1,864)
Eastman Kodak (1,700)
Larimer County (1,467)
Avago Technologies (1,200)
Columbine Health Systems (1,200)
McKee Medical Center (950)
Walmart (909)
City of Loveland, CO (890)
Advanced Energy (825)
Anheuser-Busch (760)
Qualfon (formerly Center Partners) (700)
Woodward Governor Company (650)
Water Pik, Inc. (585)
OtterBox (550)
LSI Corporation (341)
AMD (173)
Regional economic development partners include the City of Fort Collins Economic Health Office, Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation, Small Business Development Center, and Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative (RMI2).
Sustainability programs[edit]
FortZED is a zero energy district encompassing the Downtown area of Fort Collins and the main campus of Colorado State University.[27] The district's public-private partnerships employ smart grid and renewable energy technologies to manage the local use and supply of energy. FortZED relies upon energy demand management techniques to encourage use of energy at the most efficient times.
Federal, state, and local funding are making the project a reality. The U.S. Department of Energy has contributed $6.3 million and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs has provided $778,000. Locally, private companies and foundations have committed nearly $8 million.
Arts and culture[edit]
The 2004 Colorado Brewers Festival in Fort Collins
Fort Collins historic district
Much of Fort Collins's culture is centered on the students of Colorado State University. The city provides school year residences for its large college-age population; there is a local music circuit which is influenced by its college town atmosphere and is home to a number of well known microbreweries. The Downtown Business Association hosts a number of small and large festivals each year in the historic Downtown district, including Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest in late summer, which features local cuisine, music, and businesses. The Fort Collins Lincoln Center is home to the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra and regularly attracts national touring companies of Broadway plays.
The city's thriving beer culture supports many microbreweries: the New Belgium Brewing Company, the Odell Brewing Company, Equinox Brewing, Funkwerks, Horse & Dragon Brewery, Pateros Creek Brewing Company, Zwei Brewing, 1933 Brewing, Snowbank Brewing, Rally King Brewing, Jessup Farm Barrel House, McClellan's Brewing, Soul Squared Brewing, Three Four Brewing Company, Maxline Brewing, and formerly the eponymous Fort Collins Brewery which was bought out in 2017. New Belgium is the largest of the local craft-breweries, with national distribution from California to states east of the Mississippi. The largest brewer in the world, Anheuser-Busch, also has a brewery northeast of the city near I-25. There are several brewpubs, including the original C.B. & Potts Restaurant and its Big Horn Brewery, CooperSmith's Pub & Brewing, a local mainstay since 1989, Pitchers Brewery, and Black Bottle Brewery.
The Colorado Brewer's Festival is held in late June annually in Fort Collins. The festival features beers from as many as 45 brewers from the state of Colorado and averages around 30,000 attendees. New Belgium Brewery also hosts the Tour de Fat which draws over 20,000 people riding bikes and dressing in costume. As well as a series of Bike in movies starting late September.
The Colorado Marathon is a yearly event running down the Poudre Canyon and finishing in downtown Fort Collins.
The principal venue for the performing arts in Fort Collins is the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., at Meldrum Street. Built in 1978, the center includes the 1,180-seat Performance Hall and the 220-seat Magnolia Theatre, as well as four exhibit galleries and an outdoor sculpture and performance garden. It is home to many local arts groups, including the Fort Collins Symphony, Opera Fort Collins, Canyon Concert Ballet, Larimer Chorale, Youth Orchestra of the Rockies, OpenStage Theatre and Company, Foothills Pops Band and the Fort Collins Children's Theatre. Concert, dance, children's, and travel film series are presented annually. The center is wheelchair-accessible and has an infrared sound system for the hearing-impaired. Ticket prices vary considerably, but children's programs are often free or less than $10, and big name acts and Broadway shows are $18 to $36. The center hosts nearly 1,750 events each year.
The Fort Collins Museum, established in 1941, is a regional center focusing on the culture and history of Fort Collins and the surrounding area. The Fort Collins Museum houses over 30,000 artifacts and features temporary and permanent exhibits, on-going educational programs and events, and is home to four historic structures located in the outdoor Heritage Courtyard.
The arts are represented by The Center for Fine Art Photography, University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins Museum of Art (FCMOA), the Arts Incubator of the Rockies (AIR), and the Bas Bleu Theatre Company.
The Gardens on Spring Creek is an 18-acre (7.3 ha) botanical garden. The site includes several themed gardens ranging from a children's garden to a rock garden, to several themed demonstration gardens.[citation needed]
There are also many parks in Fort Collins including community parks and neighborhood parks, totaling 875 acres (354 ha) of developed park areas.[28] Some of these parks have facilities such as public tennis courts, frisbee golf courses, golf courses, dog parks, baseball diamonds, basketball courts and picnic shelters. In total, there are 6 community parks.[28] These include City Park, Edora Park, Fossil Creek Park, Lee Martinez Park, Rolland Moore Park, and Spring Canyon Park.[29] There are also many smaller neighborhood parks. These parks often host events such as marathons, community activities and holiday celebrations.[citation needed]
Government[edit]
City Council:[30]
Mayor Wade Troxell
District 1 Bob Overbeck
District 2 Ray Martinez
District 3 Ken Summers
District 4 Kristin Stephens
District 5 Ross Cunniff
District 6 Gerry Horak,
Mayor Pro Tem
Fort Collins has a council-manager form of government. The mayor, who serves a two-year term and stands for election in municipal elections held in April of odd-numbered years, presides over a seven-member City Council. The current mayor of Fort Collins is Wade Troxell, elected in April 2015. The six remaining council members are elected from districts for staggered four-year terms; odd-numbered districts are up for election in April 2017 and even-numbered districts in April 2019.
Fort Collins is the largest city in Colorado's 2nd Congressional district, and is represented in Congress by Representative Jared Polis (Democrat). On the state level, the city lies in the 14th district of the Colorado Senate, represented by John Kefalas and is split between the 52nd and 53rd districts of the Colorado House of Representatives, represented by Joann Ginal and Jennifer Arndt, respectively. All three of Fort Collins' state legislators are Democrats. Fort Collins is additionally the county seat of Larimer County, and houses county offices and courts.
Education[edit]
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Fossil Ridge High School
K–12 public education is provided through Poudre School District (PSD). The district operates and manages the public schools in the city of Fort Collins, as well as in the surrounding towns of Wellington, Timnath, Windsor, Laporte and Livermore. The district is one of the fastest growing in Northern Colorado, adding 500 students — about the size of an elementary school — each year. To accommodate growth, the district plans to build three new schools in the next few years.[31]
Poudre School District includes four comprehensive high schools that serve neighborhoods around Fort Collins, including Fort Collins High School, Rocky Mountain High School, Poudre High School, Fossil Ridge High School. The district also operates four alternative high schools: Centennial High School, Polaris School for Expeditionary Learning School, Poudre Community Academy and Poudre School District Global Academy, a dual in-person/online school. Additionally, four public charter schools are chartered through PSD, including Ridgeview Classical Schools, and Liberty Common High School, Mountain Sage Community School and Fort Collins Montessori School.
The Poudre School District is also home to ten middle schools (Lesher Middle IB World School, Blevins Middle School, Boltz Middle School, Cache La Poudre Middle School, Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School], Lincoln IB World Middle School, Polaris Expeditionary Learning School, Preston Middle School, Webber Middle School, and Wellington Middle School) and 32 elementary schools.
PSD has earned recognition from the U.S. Department of Education for excellence in sustainability,[32] and placed in the top 5 Education Sector partners in the 2016 Better Buildings challenge, put on by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, for achieving 25 percent energy savings and 29 percent water conservation over the last five years.[33] During the 2015-16 school year, the district diverted nearly 1,000 tons of waste.[34] Special curriculum like River Week ensures that students are educated about the importance of local conservation.[35]
In addition to PSD schools, several state charter schools serve Fort Collins, including T.R. Paul Academy of Arts and Knowledge and Global Village Academy and Ridgeview Classical Schools. Private schools include Heritage Christian Academy, Rivendell School, and St. Joseph's Catholic School.
Higher education[edit]
The Oval, part of the CSU campus
Colorado State University heads up the choices in higher education. Front Range Community College also maintains a campus in the city, and grants associate's degrees in arts, science, general studies, and applied science. The college offers 17 high school vocational programs and more than 90 continuing education classes. Additionally, the University of Phoenix and Regis University maintain satellite campuses there.
The Institute of Business & Medical Careers provides professional training in the business and medical professions.[36] The institute's first campus was established in the city in 1987.
The Fort Collins Public Library was established in 1900, the sixth public library in the state.[citation needed] The city received $12,500 from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to build the library, with the condition that it would be maintained as a free public library. It was completed in 1904 at a total cost of approximately $15,000.[37] The library formed a regional library district through a ballot measure in 2006. It has been renamed Poudre River Public Library District. The district operates three branches: the Old Town Library is located in downtown Fort Collins; the Harmony library is hosted at Front Range Community College; and the Council Tree Library, which opened in 2009, is at the Front Range Village Shopping Center. The library participates in cooperative projects with the local school district and Colorado State University.
Fort Collins has a range of research institutes. Facilities are maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases,[38] the Center for Advanced Technology and the Colorado Water Resource Research Institute. Other facilities include the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the Institute for Scientific Computing, the U.S. Forest Service Experimental Station, the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP), and the U.S.D.A. Crops Research Laboratory.
Media[edit]
Main article: Media in Fort Collins, Colorado
Infrastructure[edit]
Transportation[edit]
In 2009, the Fort Collins-Loveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) ranked as the third highest in the United States for percentage of commuters who biked to work (5.6 percent).[39]
Air travel[edit]
Allegiant Air offered regular passenger airplane service into the nearby Fort Collins / Loveland Airport, but the airline ended commercial flights to this airport. Elite Airways resumed commercial air service at the airport on August 27, 2015, providing non-stop flights to the Chicago Rockford International Airport in Illinois. [40] Denver International Airport, which is 70 miles (110 km) to the south, is served by twenty three airlines. Fort Collins can be approached from Denver by car via Interstate 25 or by way of the RTD bus system and the FLEX regional bus line.
The city's former general aviation airport, known as Fort Collins Downtown Airport (3V5), opened in 1966 and closed in 2006.[41]
Streets[edit]
Fort Collins's downtown streets form a grid with Interstate 25 running north and south on the east side of the city. Many of the streets are named after the town's founders.[citation needed] U.S. Highway 287 becomes College Avenue inside the city and is the busiest street; It runs north and south, effectively bisecting the city, and serving as the east–west meridian, while Mountain Avenue is the north-south. SH 14 runs concurrent with US 287 at the northern city limit to Jefferson Street, running southeast along Jefferson (later turning into Riverside Avenue), then turning east onto Mulberry Street where it goes east out of the city after an interchange with Interstate 25.
Transit and taxi[edit]
Fort Collins also once had a municipally owned trolley service with three branches from the intersection of Mountain and College avenues. It was closed in 1951 after ceasing to be profitable. In 1983–84, a portion of the Mountain Avenue line and one of the original trolley cars, Car 21, were restored as a heritage trolley service, under the same name used by the original system, the Fort Collins Municipal Railway.[42] This has been in operation since the end of 1984 on weekends and holidays in the spring and summer, as a tourist- and cultural/educational attraction small fee applies to ride.
The city bus system, known as Transfort, operates more than a dozen routes throughout Fort Collins Monday through Saturday, except major holidays.
The MAX Bus Rapid Transit is a bus rapid transit that provides service on the Mason Corridor Transitway parallel to College Avenue from Downtown Fort Collins to a transit center just south of Harmony Road. The trip takes approximately 15 minutes from end to end with various stops between. The service began in May 2014.[43] The Mason Corridor and the Mason Express are intended to be the center of future transit-oriented development.
Fort Collins is connected to Loveland, Berthoud, and Longmont via the FLEX regional bus route.
Taxi service is provided by Northern Colorado Yellow Cab. Pedicabs are also available from HopON LLC and Dream team Pedicabs.[44]
Cycling[edit]
Bicycling is a popular and viable means of transportation in Fort Collins. There are more than 280 miles (450 km) of designated bikeways in Fort Collins, including on street designated bike lanes, and the Spring Creek and Poudre River Trails, both paved. There is also a dirt trail, the 5.8-mile (9.3 km) Foothills Trail, parallel to Horsetooth Reservoir from Dixon Reservoir north to Campeau Open Space and Michaud Lane.
The Fort Collins Bicycle Library lends bicycles to visitors, students, and residents looking to explore the city of Fort Collins. There are self-guided tours from the "Bike the Sites" collection, including a Brewery Tour, Environmental Learning Tour, and the Historic Tour. The Bike Library is centrally located in the heart of downtown Fort Collins in Old Town Square.
In 2013 the League of American Bicyclists designated Fort Collins as a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community – one of four in the United States.[45]
Commercial shipping[edit]
Parcel service for Fort Collins is provided by FedEx, Airport Express, DHL, Burlington Air Express, UPS, and Purolator. Fort Collins has two-day rail freight access to the West Coast or the East Coast and has eight motor freight carriers. Many local industrial sites have rail freight spur service. The city is served by Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads.
Facilities[edit]
NIST time signal transmitters WWV and WWVB are near the city[46]
Poudre Valley Hospital has helped make Fort Collins into a regional health care center
The National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) (Human Genome Project)
The city is the headquarters of Roosevelt National Forest
Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Laboratory
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
USDA Seed Lab Storage
Headquarters for SCUBA Schools International (SSI)
National Wildlife Research Center
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Western Regional Headquarters
Police[edit]
Main article: Fort Collins Police Services
Notable people[edit]
Wayne Allard, former U.S. Senator from Colorado
Scott Anderson (racing driver)
John Ashton, actor
Balloon boy hoax, Richard Heene
Carol Berg, fantasy author
Biota, music ensemble
Frank Caeti, repertory cast member on sketch comedy series MADtv
Allen Bert Christman, a cartoonist and American Volunteer Group pilot killed in Rangoon, Burma, during World War II
Jon Cooper, center for NFL's Minnesota Vikings
Joy Davidson, opera singer
Janay DeLoach, professional track and field athlete and Olympian
Rick Dennison, NFL linebacker
Jeff Donaldson, NFL defensive back
Becca Fitzpatrick, author
Lamar Gant, powerlifter
Harper Goff, artist, musician, and actor
Marco Gonzales, Major League Baseball player
Georgia Gould, professional Mountain Bike and Cyclo-cross racer
Temple Grandin, author, professor, subject of film Temple Grandin
Jon Heder, title character in 2004's Napoleon Dynamite
Ed Herman Mixed martial artist fighting for the UFC
Katie Herzig, folk musician
Immortal Dominion, known for soundtrack to Teeth
Korey Jones, CFL player
Jake Lloyd, young Anakin Skywalker in 1999's Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Sonny Lubick, former head football coach at Colorado State University
David Mattingly, science fiction illustrator
Ross Marquand, actor best known for portraying Aaron in The Walking Dead
Hattie McDaniel, first African-American to win an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress 1939)
Darnell McDonald, Major League Baseball player
Donzell McDonald, former Major League Baseball player
Mark D. Miller, photographer
Edward S. Montgomery, journalist
Pete Monty, NFL linebacker
John Mortvedt, renowned soil scientist and professor emeritus at Colorado State University
Blake Neubert, artist
Carl B. Olsen, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
Holmes Rolston III, 2003 Templeton Prize winner
Derek Vincent Smith, electronic music artist who performs under name "Pretty Lights"
Justin E. Smith, sheriff of Larimer County since 2011
Bill Stevenson, musician (Descendents), and record producer at his Blasting Room studios
Pat Stryker, billionaire heiress and philanthropist
Thomas Sutherland, Colorado State professor and former Beirut hostage
Ryan Sutter, bachelor chosen as a groom by Trista Rehn in 2003's The Bachelorette
Shane Swartz, boxer
Derek Theler, actor in ABC family show Baby Daddy.[47]
Haeley Vaughn, top 25 finalist of American Idol
Byron Raymond White, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Ben Woolf, actor
Jason Wingate, composer.[48]
James B. Arthur, Pioneer, Entrepreneur, Mayor, Councilman, Colorado State Senator.[49]
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Fort Collins is known along with Marceline, Missouri as one of the towns that inspired the design of Main Street, U.S.A. inside the main entrance of the many "Disneyland"-style parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world.[50] Harper Goff, who worked on Main Street, U.S.A. with Walt, showed Walt some photos of his childhood home of Fort Collins, Colorado. Walt liked the look, and so many of the features of the town were incorporated into Main Street, U.S.A.
Fort Collins was the setting of the infamous balloon boy hoax of October 15, 2009.
The sixth episode of the twentieth season of the adult animated series South Park, called "Fort Collins", was named after the Colorado city. In the episode, the Danes plan to activate their Internet troll identification website known as "Troll Trace". They reveal the identity of a troll in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, while also publicizing all of its citizens' Internet histories and thus causing the city to destroy itself.
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In 2006, Money ranked Fort Collins as the best place to live in America.[51]
In 2011, Allstate Insurance listed Fort Collins as "America's Safest Driving City" in their annual "Best Drivers Report".[52]
In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S. by CBS Money Watch.[53]
In 2015, Fort Collins ranked No. 10 on Forbes' list of the Best Places for Business and Careers.[54]
In 2017, Fort Collins ranked No. 4 on Forbes' list of the 25 Happiest Cities in America.[55]
See also[edit]
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Driver License Compact
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The Driver License Compact is an agreement between states in the United States of America. The compact is used to exchange data between motorist's home state and a state where the motorist incurred a vehicular infraction. Not all states are members, and states respond to the data differently.[1]
Contents
1 Overview
2 History
3 States that are not members
4 Exceptions
5 Agreements between US states and Canadian provinces
6 National Driver Register
7 Notes
Overview[edit]
Under the Driver License Compact, which is a series of laws within the adopting states in the United States and adopting provinces of Canada, in order for a driver's state to penalize him/her for an out-of-state offense, the driver's state must have the equivalent statute. If the driver's state does not have the statute, no action can be taken. For example, the state of Indiana does not have a careless driving offense whereas Colorado does. If an Indiana licensed driver gets convicted of careless driving in Colorado, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles takes no action.[citation needed]
History[edit]
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The Driver License Compact came into existence with Nevada becoming the first member in 1960. Organizations in the Western States such as governors came together to cooperate on traffic safety. Under the Beamer Resolution ("Interstate Compacts for Highway Safety Resolution"), Public Law 85-684, enacted on August 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 635 (named for Rep. John V. Beamer, R-Indiana),[2][not in citation given] states were automatically given permission to form compacts in the areas of traffic safety. Originally, the Driver License Compact dealt with dangerous driving violations such as drunk driving, reckless driving, commission of a felony involving a motor vehicle and others. Later on, minor violations were included as well. Quite a few states joined in the 1960s but it languished in the 1970s and part of the 1980s. In the late 1980s, there was a push by the AAMVA to get states to join and in the early to mid 1990s, quite a few states joined.
The Driver License Compact is no longer being pushed by the AAMVA as it is being superseded by the Driver License Agreement (DLA), which also replaces the Non-Resident Violator Compact. However, as of 2011, there were only three member states to the DLA: Arkansas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
States that are not members[edit]
Georgia, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Tennessee are not members.[3] American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators:[4] Nevada repealed the authorizing legislation in 2007,[5] although it still generally conforms to the agreement through regulations.[3]
Exceptions[edit]
Some states, such as Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, New York,[6] and Pennsylvania, do not assess points for minor offenses and apply the DLC for only major violations.
States that are members are free to take action on violations reported from a non-member state as well.
Pennsylvania transfers points from another state within the agreement only if it meets certain conditions.[7]
New Jersey assigns two points for all out-of-state minor violations regardless of whether the point values are higher if committed in the home state.[8]
Agreements between US states and Canadian provinces[edit]
Some US states share information and act on driving violations in certain Canadian provinces, in a similar way to the compact:
New York does assess points for minor violations received in Ontario and Quebec.[6]
Michigan and Ontario exchange information and take adverse action.
Maine and Quebec exchange information and take adverse action.
Florida and Quebec exchange information and take adverse action.
National Driver Register[edit]
The National Driver Register (NDR) is a computerized database of information about drivers who have had their licenses revoked or suspended, or who have been convicted of serious traffic violations such as driving while impaired by alcohol or other drugs. State motor vehicle agencies provide NDR with the names of individuals who have lost their privilege or who have been convicted of a serious traffic violation. When a person applies for a driver's license the state checks to see if the name is on the NDR file. If a person has been reported to the NDR as a problem driver, the license may be denied.[9]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ http://apps.csg.org/ncic/Compact.aspx?id=56
Jump up ^ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:United_States_Statutes_at_Large_Volume_72_Part_1.djvu/677
^ Jump up to: a b [1]
Jump up ^ Driver License Compact/National Religious Vocation Conference member status
Jump up ^ 2007 Nev. Stat. 2781
^ Jump up to: a b New York State Department of Motor Vehicles: Traffic Tickets
Jump up ^ PENNDOT DLC Fact Sheet
Jump up ^ New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission: Violations committed in other states
Jump up ^ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: National Driver Register (NDR) Archived August 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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