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Pueblo is a home rule city that serves as the county seat of Pueblo County in south-central Colorado, sitting at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek about 112 miles south of Denver.

The city's roots reach back to about 1842, when trappers including James Beckwourth and George Simpson helped build El Pueblo, a trading post near the Arkansas River that was abandoned after the Fort Pueblo Massacre of December 1854.

The settlement gave its name to Pueblo County when Colorado Territory was organized in 1861, and both Pueblo and neighboring Fountain City had been platted by 1860.

Modern Pueblo was formed from four separate towns — Pueblo, South Pueblo, Central Pueblo and Bessemer — the first three of which consolidated in 1886, with Bessemer joining in 1894.

The City of Pueblo was incorporated on November 15, 1885.

The 2020 United States census counted 111,876 residents in Pueblo, making it the ninth most populous municipality in Colorado.

The 2000 census recorded 40,307 households and 43,121 housing units within the city.

Pueblo earned the nickname 'Steel City' from its Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, which made it one of the largest steel-producing cities in the United States and by 1909 was considered the only steel town west of the Mississippi River.

The city is also known as the 'Home of Heroes' and hosts the Colorado State Fair, Colorado's largest single annual event, every late summer.

The Great Flood of 1921 destroyed roughly a third of Pueblo's downtown businesses, ending the era when the city was known as the saddle-making capital of the world.