FORT COLLINS, a city of Colorado, U.S.A., 65m. N. of Denver and 6m. E. of the foothills of the Rocky mountains, on the Cache la Poudre river, at an altitude of 4,994f t. ; the seat of the State agricultural college, and the county seat of Larimer county. It is on Federal highway 285, and is served by the Colo rado and Southern and the Union Pacific railways. The popula tion was 8,755 in 1920 (91% native white), and was 11,489 in 193o by the Federal census. Fort Collins is a delightful residential town. The campus of the Colorado agricultural college (estab lished 187o; enrolment for 1926-27, 1,848) covers i6oac. half a mile from the business centre. Adjoining the campus on the west is the college farm ; 1m. E. is the experimental farm of 152ac., and 2m. W. is the college pasture of 1,3 5o acres. The surrounding country is a very highly developed irrigated district, where sheep-feeding and the raising of sugar-beets predominate. North of the city is a large gas and oil field, opened in 1924. Manufacturing industries include a large beet-sugar factory, brick and tile works, and one of the largest cement plants west of the Mississippi (opened in 1927). In 1864 a company of United States soldiers, under Capt. Collins of the 7th Ohio volun teer infantry, was stationed here to quell the Indian uprisings. The camp soon developed into a trading centre, as the region was settled by farmers from Iowa, Illinois and Ohio, and in 1873 the city was incorporated.