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Garfield County is a
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located in the U.S. state of
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,685. The
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is
Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 9,963 at the 2020 United States Census. Glenwood Springs is located at the confluence of the Roaring Fork ...
. The county is named in honor of
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James A. Garfield. Garfield County is included in the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the
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-Glenwood Springs, CO
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Geography

According to the
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.3%) is water.


Adjacent counties

* Rio Blanco County - north * Routt County - northeast * Eagle County - east *
Pitkin County Pitkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,358. The county seat and largest city is Aspen. The county is named for Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin. Pitkin County has the s ...
- southeast * Mesa County - south *
Grand County, Utah Grand County is a county on the east central edge of the U.S. state of Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 9,225. Its county seat and largest city is Moab. History Evidence of indigenous occupation ...
- southwest *
Uintah County, Utah Uintah County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census the population was 35,620. Its county seat and largest city is Vernal. The county was named for the portion of the Ute Indian tribe that lived in th ...
- northwest


Major highways

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Interstate 70 Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a park and ride lot just east of I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth-longest Interstate in the co ...
* * * U.S. Highway 6 * State Highway 13 * State Highway 82 * State Highway 133 * State Highway 139 * State Highway 325


Protected areas

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Flat Tops Wilderness Flat Tops Wilderness Area is the second largest U.S. Wilderness Area in Colorado. It is , with in Routt National Forest and in White River National Forest. It was designated a wilderness area in 1975. Trappers Lake, located in the north of the ...
* Grand Mesa National Forest * Harvey Gap State Park *
Rifle Falls State Park Rifle Falls State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Garfield County northeast of Rifle, Colorado. The central feature of the park is a triple waterfall flowing over a travertine dam on East Rifle Creek. Commonly seen wildlife include ...
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Rifle Gap State Park Rifle Gap State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Garfield County near Rifle, Colorado. The park established in 1966 includes a reservoir. Plant communities are pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush shrubland with deciduous riparian f ...
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Routt National Forest Routt may refer to: ;Places In the United States: * Routt, Louisville, Kentucky *Routt County, Colorado ;People *Joe Routt *John Long Routt John Long Routt (April 25, 1826 – August 13, 1907) was an American politician of the Republican Part ...
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White River National Forest White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado. It is named after the White River that passes through its northern section. It is the most visited National Forest in the United States, primarily from users of the twelv ...


Scenic byways

* Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway National Scenic Byway * Flat Tops Trail Scenic Byway * West Elk Loop Scenic Byway


Demographics

The 2019 Census population estimate for Garfield County is 60,061, a 6.5% increase from the 2010 Census. * Population density per square mile: 19.1 (2010) * Race Estimations (2019) ** White alone, not Hispanic or Latino (67.4%) ** Hispanic or Latino (29.3%) ** Black or African American alone (1.3%) ** American Indian and Alaskan Native alone (1.7%) ** Asian, alone (0.9%) ** Two or more races (2.0%) * Age and Sex Estimations (2019) ** Persons under 5 years of age (6.8%) ** Persons under 18 years of age (24.9%) ** Persons 65 years of age and over (13.8%) ** Female persons (48.9%) * Housing ** Housing units, 2019: (24,363) ** Owner occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018: (66.9%) ** Persons per household, 2014-2018: (2.73) * Education (2014-2018) ** High school graduate (87.5%) ** Bachelor's degree or higher (30.0%) * Income and Poverty (2014 - 2018) ** Median household income: ($72, 898) ** Per capita income: $32,491) ** Persons in poverty: (8.4%)


Politics

Voting participation rates in Garfield County are above the U.S. national average. In the 2018 General Election, 65% of eligible voters participated. In the 2020 presidential election, 84.47% eligible voters participated. The county leans slightly Republican based on vote totals in elections (2008 - 2018 data) with an estimated range of two to one-thousand votes often determining candidate outcomes for the county. Garfield County has primarily voted for Republican Party candidates in presidential elections throughout its history, with the county only failing to back the Republican candidates ten times from 1884 to 2020. Although the county includes the relatively liberal city of Glenwood Springs, this is outweighed by the extremely conservative city of Rifle, as well as the nearby towns of Silt, Parachute, and Battlement Mesa. Until 2020, the most recent Democratic win was by
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in 1992, but Republicans were held to a plurality of the county's votes in half of the six following presidential elections prior to 2020. Notably,
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lost the county to
John McCain John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two te ...
by two votes in 2008. In
2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
, Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the county since Clinton in 1992, with about 50% of the vote. No Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of the vote in the county since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, although in 2020, Joe Biden was just 26 votes shy of having the majority of the vote in the county. The county lies in Colorado's 3rd congressional district, represented by local
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resident Lauren Boebert.


Communities


Cities

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Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 9,963 at the 2020 United States Census. Glenwood Springs is located at the confluence of the Roaring Fork ...
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Rifle A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with ...


Towns

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(ghost town) * Carbondale * New Castle *
Silt Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz. Silt may occur as a soil (often mixed with sand or clay) or as sediment mixed in suspension with water. Silt usually has a floury feel ...
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Parachute A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift. A major application is to support people, for recreation or as a safety device for aviators, w ...


Census-designated places

* Battlement Mesa * Catherine * Cattle Creek *
Chacra Chacra is an Andean term (a loanword from the Quechua word ''chakra'', meaning "farm, agricultural field, or land sown with seed";Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)< ...
* Mulford * No Name


See also

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Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
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Outline of Colorado The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Colorado: Colorado – 22nd most populous, the eighth most extensive, and the highest in average elevation of the 50 United States. Colorado ...
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Index of Colorado-related articles This is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. State of Colorado. 0–9 * .co.us – Internet second-level domain for the State of Colorado * 4 Corners ** 4 Corners Monument * 6th Principal Meridian * 10-mile Range * 10th ...
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Bibliography of Colorado The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America This is a bibliography of the U.S. State of Colorado. __TOC__ General history * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Sibley, George. ''Water Wranglers - The 75- ...
** Geography of Colorado **
History of Colorado The region that is today the U.S. State of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major ...
** Colorado statistical areas ***
Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area Glenwood may refer to: Places Canada * Glenwood, Alberta (village) * Glenwood, Alberta (former hamlet) * Glenwood, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta * Glenwood, Manitoba * Glenwood, Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada ...
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List of counties in Colorado The U.S. State of Colorado is divided into 64 counties. Two of these counties, the City and County of Broomfield and the City and County of Denver, have consolidated city and county governments. Denver serves as the state capital. Counties a ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Garfield County, Colorado __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Garfield County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Garfield County, ...
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List of places in Colorado A B C D E F G-O * List of places in Colorado G through O P-Z * List of places in Colorado P through Z References

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*** List of census-designated places in Colorado ***
List of forts in Colorado This is a list of military and trading forts established in the U.S. State of Colorado. History The initial forts, built in the first half of the 19th century, were early communities of commerce between Native Americans, trappers, and trader ...
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List of ghost towns in Colorado This is a list of some ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist. Due to incomplete records and legends that are now accepted as fact, no exhaustive l ...
*** List of mountain passes in Colorado ***
List of mountain peaks of Colorado This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a m ...
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List of municipalities in Colorado The U.S. State of Colorado has 272 active incorporated municipalities, comprising 197 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) ...
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List of post offices in Colorado A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References

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Protected areas of Colorado This is a list of protected areas of the U.S. state of Colorado. __TOC__ Federal lands The United States federal government owns 36.23% of Colorado's total land area. National Park System The National Park System includes 23 areas in Colo ...


References


External links


Garfield County Government websiteColorado Historical Society
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