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Place Name
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Weld County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Greeley
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Population
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131,821 (1990)
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Location
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Colorado, United States, North America
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Latitude
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40°32'N
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Longitude
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104°24'W
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Weld
, county (
4,021 sq mi/10,414 sq km; 1990
pop. 131,821), NE Colo.;  Greeley; 40°32'N 104°24'W. It is
the 2d-largest co. in Colo. Coal-mining and irrigated agr. area,
bordering on Wyo. and Nebr.; watered by South Platte R., Cache la
Poudre R., Big and Little Thompson rivers. State's richest agr. co.
Cattle, poultry, eggs; wheat, hay, corn, sunflowers, beans, sorghum,
oats, barley, sugar beets, fruit, vegetables. Oil and natural gas.
Barbour Ponds State Park in SW; all of Pawnee Natl. Grassland in N and
NE; Lower Latham and Milton reservoirs in S; Empire and Riverside
reservoirs in SE. Formed 1861.
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