The municipality
of Broomfield was incorporated in 1961 in the southeastern
corner ofBoulder County. It received its name from
thebroomcorngrown
in the area. Over the next three decades, the city grew throughannexations,
many of which crossed the county line into three adjacent counties:Adams,JeffersonandWeld. In the 1990s, city leaders began to push
for the creation of a separate county to avoid the inefficiencies of dealing
with four separate court districts, four different county seats, and four
separate county sales tax bases. It also had longstanding political differences
with BoulderCounty, which impelled it to separate. Broomfield reasoned that
it could provide services more responsively under its own county government,
and sought an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution to create a new
county. The amendment was passed in 1998, after which a three-year transition
period followed. On November 15, 2001, BroomfieldCounty became the 64th, newest and
smallest county
of Colorado.
According to theUnited States Census Bureau, the city has
a total area of 27.5 square miles (71.2 km2), of which 27.1
square miles (70.2 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles
(0.8 km2) (1.24 percent) is water.
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