Settlers began arriving in the vicinity of the fort nearly immediately. Poudre Valley Bank, at Linden and Walnut, in Fort Collins (1908) The post was manned originally by two companies of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and never had walls. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort. Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864. Camp Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had been recently relocated through the region. It succeeded a previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache la Poudre River, near what is known today as Laporte. įort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864. He made friends of white settlers who moved into the area, but was pushed out of Colorado in the 1860s. Louis, Missouri in his youth, was a leader of the band of Arapahos as well as an interpreter, negotiator, and peacemaker. Northern Arapaho were centered in the Cache la Poudre River Valley near present-day Fort Collins. Fort Collins is a midsize college town, home to Colorado State University and Front Range Community College's Larimer campus. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 56 mi (90 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. The city is the fourth most populous city in Colorado. Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city population was 169,810 at the 2020 census, an increase of 17.94% since 2010.

Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

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