Q 01/05

Fort Collins was founded in 1864 as what kind of settlement?

A) A U.S. Army outpost

B) A gold-mining camp

C) A railroad division point

D) A fur-trading post

Answer · why

A) A U.S. Army outpost

Fort Collins began in 1864 as a U.S. Army outpost, Camp Collins, built to guard the Overland Trail stage route; it never had walls and was decommissio...

Q 02/05

Colonel William O. Collins commanded which Wyoming Army post when he authorized the site named for him?

A) Fort Lyon

B) Fort Laramie

C) Fort Kearny

D) Fort Bridger

Answer · why

B) Fort Laramie

Collins commanded Fort Laramie as colonel of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; his son Caspar, killed in 1865, gave his name to Fort Caspar near presen...

Q 03/05

What wiped out the original Camp Collins near Laporte in June 1864, prompting the move downriver?

A) A prairie fire

B) A blizzard

C) A flood

D) A cavalry mutiny

Answer · why

C) A flood

A flood on the Cache la Poudre in June 1864 swept through the camp near Laporte, and the garrison rebuilt on higher ground downstream at the site of t...

Q 04/05

Fort Collins is the seat of which Colorado county?

A) Weld

B) Boulder

C) Jefferson

D) Larimer

Answer · why

D) Larimer

Fort Collins is the seat of Larimer County, one of the 17 original counties of Colorado Territory created in 1861 and named for General William Larime...

Q 05/05

In what year did the county seat move from Laporte to Fort Collins?

A) 1868

B) 1873

C) 1879

D) 1883

Answer · why

A) 1868

The county seat moved from Laporte to Fort Collins in 1868, one year after Camp Collins was decommissioned; the settlement's first school had opened i...