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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Fremont County is the 16th most populous of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county is named for explorer and presidential candidate John C. Frémont. The county population was 46,824 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Cañon City. The Cañon City Micropolitan Statistical Area comprises Fremont County. Fremont County is also home to 15 prisons. The artist Christo plans to begin in 2014 a project to drape a portion of the Arkansas River in Fremont County in cloth.
ADX Supermax, the only federal Supermax prison in the United States, is in an unincorporated area in Fremont County, south of Florence.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1861 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1862 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1865 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1868 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1870 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1874 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1884 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1900 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1870 | 1,064
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| 1880 | 4,735
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| 1890 | 9,156
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| 1900 | 15,636
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| 1910 | 18,181
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| 1920 | 17,883
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| 1930 | 18,896
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| 1940 | 19,742
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| 1950 | 18,366
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| 1960 | 20,196
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| 1970 | 21,942
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| 1980 | 28,676
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| 1990 | 32,273
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