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Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city in Colorado with 478,961 residents at the 2020 census, representing a 15.02% increase since 2010, and the county seat of El Paso County located 70 miles south of Denver in east-central Colorado at an elevation of 6,035 feet near the base of Pikes Peak. The city originated during the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush when Colorado City was formally organized on August 13, 1859, and was later renamed Colorado Springs in 1871 when the Fountain Colony was established, becoming a major center for mining with 275 mining brokers by 1895 and earning the nickname "Little London" due to significant English immigration. Colorado Springs developed significant military importance during World War II with the establishment of Camp Carson in 1941 (now the 135,000-acre Fort Carson) and Peterson Field in 1942, followed by the selection of Ent Air Force Base as the Cold War headquarters for Air Defense Command in November 1950. The city stands as the largest city north of Mexico above 6,000 feet in elevation and serves as the principal city of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area with 755,105 residents in 2020, making it the 40th-most-populous city in the United States. Pueblo, Colorado, the ninth most populous city in Colorado with 111,876 residents in the 2020 census, is the county seat of Pueblo County and a principal city of the Front Range Urban Corridor located 112 miles south of Denver at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek. Known as the "Steel City" for being one of the largest steel-producing cities in the United States, Pueblo is situated in the semi-arid "Banana Belt" region that receives approximately 12 inches of precipitation annually and experiences less snow than other major Colorado cities. The city serves as a higher education hub with nearly 14,000 students enrolled between Colorado State University Pueblo and Pueblo Community College, while the Historic Arkansas River Project riverwalk preserves the history of the catastrophic 1921 Pueblo Flood. Indigenous peoples including the Ute, Comanche, Arapaho, and Jicarilla Apache inhabited the region from 1050 onward, with Spanish control beginning in 1521, followed by American acquisition in 1848 through the Mexican Cession. El Pueblo, a trading post founded around 1842 by trappers including James Beckwourth, was destroyed in the Fort Pueblo Massacre of December 1854, while the platted city of Pueblo itself developed from 1860 onward as a railroad and steel-manufacturing center. Cañon City is the county seat and largest municipality in Fremont County, Colorado, with a population of 17,141 as of the 2020 census, and serves as the principal city of the Cañon City Micropolitan Statistical Area. Founded on January 17, 1858, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, the city was officially incorporated on April 3, 1872, and became home to Colorado's first penitentiary, which opened in 1871 with 43 inmates and grew to over 400 by 1900. Cañon City is known for major landmarks including the Royal Gorge, Skyline Drive (built by 60 prison inmates and opened in 1905), the Royal Gorge Railroad, and its extensive fossil discoveries and natural hiking paths. The city made history in 1862 when A. M. Cassaday completed the first commercial oil well west of the Mississippi River 6 miles north of Cañon City, striking oil at 50 feet depth. Straddling the Arkansas River, Cañon City is a popular tourist destination renowned for whitewater rafting, rock climbing, and public parks, and is one of only five U.S. cities with the Spanish ñ in its official name, officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names in 1994.