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Interesting
Data About Colorado
- Colorado is the only state in history,
to turn down the Olympics. In 1976 the Winter Olympics were planned to be held
in Denver. 62% of all state Voters choose at almost the last minute not to host
the Olympics, because of the cost, pollution and population boom it would have
on the State Of Colorado, and the City of Denver.
- The United States Air Force Academy is
located in Colorado Springs.
- The world's largest flat-top mountain
is in Grand Mesa.
- In Fruita, the town folk celebrate
'Mike the Headless Chicken Day'. Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off
Mike's head on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike
lived for another 4 years without a head.
- The LoDo region of Denver stands for
Lower Downtown.
- Denver, lays claim to the invention of
the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935 to
Louis Ballast.
- The highest paved road in North
America is the Road to Mt. Evans off of I-70 from Idaho Springs. The Road climbs
up to 14,258 Ft. above sea level.
- Colorado means “colored red” and is
known as the “Centennial State.”
- The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge
Railroad continues to provide year round train service operating a historical
train with rolling stock indigenous to the line. The line was constructed
primarily to haul mine ores, both gold and silver, from the San Juan Mountains.
- The United States federal government
owns more than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.
- Colorado contains 75% of the land area
of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet.
- Colorado has 222 state wildlife areas.
- Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest
continuous street in America.
- The 13th step of the state capital
building in Denver is exactly 1 mile high above sea level.
- The Dwight Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel
between Clear Creek & Summit counties is the highest auto tunnel in the world.
Bored at an elevation of 11,000 feet under the Continental Divide it is 8,960
feet long and the average daily traffic exceeds 26,000 vehicles.
- Leadville is the highest incorporated
city in the United States at 10,430 feet elevation. Because there was lots of
"silver" named towns at the time, the founding fathers suggested Leadville.
- Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the
Beautiful” after being inspired by the view from Pikes Peak.
- Hundreds of thousands of valentines
are re-mailed each year from Loveland.
- Fountain, has the distinction of being
the United States' millennium city because it best symbolizes the overall
composition of America. Fountain is the most accurate representation of the
American "melting pot." Fountain was chosen after a Queens College sociologist
crunched Census Bureau statistics in an effort to find the one city in the
country that best represented the population make-up of the United States.
- Pueblo is the only city in America
with four living recipients of the Medal of Honor.
- The tallest building in Colorado is
the Republic Plaza at 57 stories high, in Denver.
- Every year Denver host the worlds
largest Rodeo, the Western Stock show.
- Denver has the largest city park
system in the nation with 205 parks in City limits and 20,000 Acres of parks in
the nearby mountains.
- Dove Creek is the "Pinto Bean" capital
of the world.
- The tallest sand dune in America is in
Great Sand Dunes National Monument outside of Alamosa. This bizarre 46,000-acre
landscape of 700-foot sand peaks was the creation of ocean waters and wind more
than one million years ago.
Google News - Colorado
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Colorado State Trivia
Capital City:
Denver
Area: 104,100 sq.mi.
Land: 103,730 sq.mi.
Water: 371 sq.mi.
Area Codes: 303-719-720-970
Bird: Lark Bunting
Flower: Rocky Mountain Clumbine
Highest Point: 14,433 feet
Lowest Point: 3315 feet
Soil: Colorado Seitz
Tree: Blue Spruce
Largest Cities: Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora,
Lakewood, Fort Collins, Arvada, Pueblo, Westminster, Boulder,
Thornton
Nickname: Centennial State
Population: 4,301,261
Economy:
Agriculture: Cattle, wheat, dairy products, corn, hay
Industry: Scientific instruments, food processing,
transportation equipment, machinery, chemical products, gold and
other mining, tourism
Colorado State Flag
The flag consists
of
three alternate stripes of equal width and at right
angles to the staff, the two outer stripes to be blue of
the same color as in the blue field of the national flag
and the middle stripe to be white, the proportion of the
flag being a width of two-thirds of its length. At a
distance from the staff end of the flag of one fifth of
the total length of the flag there is a circular red C,
of the same color as the red in the national flag of the
United States. The diameter of the letter is two-thirds
of the width of the flag. The inner line of the opening
of the letter C is three-fourths of the width of its
body or bar, and the outer line of the opening is double
the length of the inner line thereof. Completely filling
the open space inside the letter C is a golden disk,
attached to the flag is a cord of gold and silver,
intertwined, with tassels, one of gold and one of
silver. Flag adopted 1911.
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