FLOOD02862

• County: Pueblo
• Community: Pueblo County
• Stream Name: St. Charles River
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Floodplain Information Report
• Date: 3/1/1970
• Prepared For: Pueblo County
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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PLATE I

GENERAL CONDITIONS AND PAST rLOODS

Settlement

Pueblo, altu~ted et the confluence of the Arkanaes
River a~d rounteln Creek, is the cou~ty seat of Pueblo County.
Pueblo County woe O~B ~f the orlg1~al 17 ~ountie9 included in the
Colorado Territory ere.ted in 1861. The county ret~lned its iden-
tification when statehood ~as achieved in 1876.
Economic development in the area began in 1762 ~hen
french fur trappers erscted a small trading post on the east bank
of fountain Creek. In 1805. Zebulon M. Pike conetructed a crude
building that ~as the first to be inhabited by Americens. The
original old "fort Pueblo" ~as built in the yeare 1840 through 184~,
a short distance south of tho present location of the Santa fe
Depot.

A gold seeking party established a winter camp in 1858,
and ever ~O cabins were constructed using materiale from the orl.
ginal old "fort." New gold discoveries in 185!1 drew thousands of
new settlers, meny of whom sent for their families which further
augmented the growing population. Schools and newspapers ware
established in the territory as the populstion grew.
The railroads arrived in Pueblo in 1872, turning the
city from a small group of typically western cabins into a thriv-
ing agriculture, business, end industrial center. Shortly thers~
efter, the Centrel ColoradO Improvement Company came into existence,
end grew later to become tha present Colorado fuel and Iron Corpo-
ration.

Availability of fuel and nsarby mineral deposits eup-
ported diverse mining operations and associated commerce and indus-
try. Agriculturel and related food processing industries domineted
economic development from the beginning of the 20th cen~~ry until
World Wer II. Development of agriculture snd introduction of the
horseless carriage led to an extensive expension of traneportetion

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