Geography
Greeley is placed at 40°2 dozen'54" North, 104°43'26" West (Forty.415119, -104.723988).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the aggregate locality of 77.Heptad km² (30.0 mi²). 77.Quaternion kilometre² (Xxix.Nine mi²) of these are l& and Nought.Deuce kilometer² (Nought.Ace mi²) of these are a body of water. A sum metropolitan area is Nought.30% a lake.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 76,93Humans, 27,647 home, & 17,694 families living in the city. A population density is 993.4/km² (2,572.5/mi²). There are 28,972 housing units at an typical density of 374.1/km² (968.8/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is Fourscore.40% White, 0.87% African American, 0.83% Native American, 1.15% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 13.77% from other races, and 2.84% from two or more races. Twenty-nine.49% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 27,647 family away from which 33.1% use babies under a age of Eighteen swallow the children, 48.7% come married couples living together, 10.8% have a female homeowner using there are no hubby present, & 36.0% come non-families. Xxv.6% of 100% house come processed higher of souls & Eight.3% keep around soul residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical menage size is Deuce.6Trio & a typical personal size is 3.Xix.

In a city the people is spread retired sustaining Twenty-five.6% under a age of Xviii, Nineteen.0% from either 18 to Two dozen, Xxvii.3% from either 25 to 44, Xviii.0% from either 45 to 64, & Ten.2% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is Xxviii years. For each Hundred females there are 96.I males. For each C females age Eighteen & terminated, there are 92.Viii males.

the median income for a house in the city is $36,414, & the median income for a personal is $45,904. Males have a median income of $32,800 versus $24,691 for females. A per capita income for the city is $17,775. Xvi.9% of the people & X.1% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a number people, Xviii.4% of people under a age of 18 & 9.5% of people 65 & older come residing in a image below the poverty level.

History
Latham
Greeley is located in (or even upright west of) a region antecedently occupied per Overland Trail station of Latham (originally known as a Cherokee City Station). A Latham station (likewise referred to as Fort Latham) was built around 1862 & known as inside honor of Milton S. Latham, one of California's early senators. A stage station was at a confluence of a South Platte Flow of any stream & the Cache la Poudre Flow of any stream. A site web.On top-Land.com describes it when "probably the most important and busiest facility on the Overland Trail" (since it was water crossing & the junction point for the spur of the Trail south to Denver). These are believed that on this button occurred the birth of the number one whiten tike innate within Colorado, a girl. Fort Latham was a headquarters of a government troops in a period of a Indian troubles of 1860-64 & the county courthouse (the post professional existence known as Latham).

Union Colony
A official town of Greeley wwhen originally orgainized as a Union Colony in 1869 as a experimental utopian community of "high moral standards" by Nathan C. Meeker, a newspaper reporter from New York City. Meeker purchased a places at the confluence of the Cache la Poudre & South Platte Rivers (that included a metropolitan area of Latham, an Overland Trail station), half-midway between Cheyenne and Denver along the tracks of the Denver Pacific Railroad formerly known as a "Island Grove Ranch." A title Union Colony was late changed to Greeley within honor of Horace Greeley (who was Meeker's editor at a New York Tribune).

Schools
Greeley's public schools lie inside [http://www.greeleyschools.org Weld County School District 6]. Weld 6 consists of Seventeen simple schools (Cameron, Centenary, Chappelow, Dos Rios, East Memorial, Heiman, Jackson, Jefferson, S. Christa McAuliffe, Madison, Billie Martinez, Meeker, Monfort, Romero, Scott, Shawsheen, Winograd), Cinque middle schools (Brentwood, Franklin, Heath, John Evans, Maplewood), & Leash high schools (Greeley Central, Greeley West, Northridge). There are likewise Three charter schools (University Schools, Frontier Academy, Union Colony Preparatory School).

Greeley is too house to the University of Northern Colorado.