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Longmont
Colorado, United States
Longmont, city, Boulder and Weld counties, northern Colorado, U.S., on the St. Vrain River between the South Platte River and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,524 metres), 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Denver. Founded in 1871 as a farming community of the Chicago-Colorado Colony Company, it was named for Major Stephen H. Long, as was Longs Peak, 28 miles (45 km) west. The Colorado Central Railroad arrived in 1873, and Longmont grew as a processing and shipping point for livestock and farm crops from the surrounding lands irrigated by the Colorado–Big Thompson ...(100 of 143 words)