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Facts About Greeley

  • Population (This is how many people live in Greeley) is 100,000 (One hundred thousand). See a timeline of Greeley's population growth.

  • Elevation (This is how high we are above sea-level) is 4,658 feet.

  • Average High Temperature: December is 41 degrees
    and in July it is 89 degrees.

  • Annual Precipitation (This is how much rain falls in a year) is 13 inches.

  • Annual snowfall is 35 inches.

  • There are an average of 270 days of sunshine a year.

  • It covers an area of 27.58 square miles.

  • Its longitude is 104.37 degrees west. (This is the location on the globe running east to west)

  • Its latitude is 40.25 degrees north. (This is the location on the globe running north to south)

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•Weld County was the first to use water to convert the land into one of the top three agricultural (farming) counties in the USA.

•Weld County was the first to move the melted snow from the mountains that would have flowed east to the Pacific Ocean to the eastern slopes of Colorado for use in irrigation.

•Sprinkler technology (systems) and use was also developed here.

•Greeley is the largest community not located along the interstate highways. Greeley chose not to be located along Interstate 25 because it did not want to waste the farmland.

Greeley is growing and city life is moving into farm land. (Click on the thumbnails to see them bigger. Close the pictures window when done.)
field Sunflower Market sign
Is this plowed field ready for planting? No, it is going to become another shopping area.
condos farm
Is this in the city? Or is it in the country?
farm and condos field and condos
You can see both the farm and the city in this picture. Where city life meets farm life.

 

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