Place:Fremont, Colorado, United States

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NameFremont
Alt namesFremontsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates38.483°N 105.4°W
Located inColorado, United States     (1861 - )
See alsoCuster, Colorado, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Teller, Colorado, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Hillside Cemetery
Census-designated place
Lincoln Park
Penrose
Inhabited place
Adelaide
Brookside
Buckskin Joe
Calcite
Cañon City
Coal Creek
Coaldale
Cotopaxi
Echo
Fink
Florence
Galena
Hillside
Howard
Orchard Park
Park Center
Prospect Heights
Rockvale
Sample
Sikes
Spike Buck
Sunset City
Swissvale
Texas Creek
Wellsville
Whitehorn
Williamsburg
Yorkville
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Fremont County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,939. The county seat is Cañon City. The county is named for 19th-century explorer and presidential candidate John C. Frémont.

Fremont County comprises the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Pueblo-Cañon City, CO Combined Statistical Area.

Rural Fremont County is the location of 15 prisons; most of these are operated by the state. ADX Florence, the only federal Supermax prison in the United States, is in an unincorporated area in Fremont County, south of Florence, and is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Florence. As of March 2015, Fremont County leads the nation among all counties as the one with the largest proportion of persons incarcerated. Prisoners are counted as part of the county population in the census, and 20% of residents are held in the prisons in the county.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1861 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1862 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1865 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1868 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1870 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1874 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1884 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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
1870 1,064
1880 4,735
1890 9,156
1900 15,636
1910 18,181
1920 17,883
1930 18,896
1940 19,742
1950 18,366
1960 20,196
1970 21,942
1980 28,676
1990 32,273
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Fremont County, Colorado, United States

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