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Johnstown

Guides

The longer reads: Johnstown with kids, what moving here is like, and how the town got this way. Each says where its facts came from.

Families

Moving here

Two counties, two fire districts, three power companies

Johnstown straddles the Weld–Larimer line, and the boundaries underneath it do not agree with each other…

History

A pumpjack in a bare spring field outside Johnstown, with the plains behind it

Johnstown history: John's town to boomtown

A rancher who bought land at eleven dollars an acre ahead of the railroad and named the town for his sick son…