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Ault is a statutory town in Weld County, Colorado, on the plains northeast of Greeley, and it is part of the Greeley metropolitan statistical area.

The settlement was first called High Land and later Burgdorff Siding, after a railroad worker who died in an accident.

The Ault post office opened on March 29, 1898.

The town is named for Alexander Ault, a Fort Collins flour-mill owner who bought the area's entire grain harvest during a year of severe economic hardship, averting financial disaster for local farmers.

Ault was incorporated as the Town of Bergdorf and was renamed the Town of Ault in 1904.

Much of the town and the surrounding farmland sits on land the federal government granted to the Union Pacific Railroad to be sold to finance railroad construction, and the Denver-to-Cheyenne rail line still passes through town.

Ault stands at the intersection of U.S. Highway 85 and Colorado State Highway 14 at an elevation of 4,948 feet.

At the 2020 census, Ault had 1,887 residents, a 24.2 percent increase from 1,519 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 709 households and 743 housing units in Ault, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up 26.9 percent of the population.

Local students attend Highland High School, home of the Huskies, which was formed in 1963 when Ault combined its school with those of Pierce, Nunn, and Carr.