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The Eastern Plains of Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
 refers to region of the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Colorado on the east side of the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
, and east of the population centers of the Front Range
Colorado Front Range

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the State of Colorado in the United States which are just east of the foothills of the Front Range, from which the region takes its name....
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Eastern Plains are part of the High Plains
High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains in the central United States, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains....
, which are the westernmost portion of the Great Plains
Great Plains

The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada....
 region. The region is mostly characterized by rolling plains, divided by the shallow South Platte River
South Platte River

The South Platte River, historically known as the Rio Jesus Maria, is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and itself a major river of the American West, located in the U.S....
 and Arkansas River
Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S....
 valleys. The Eastern Plains rise from 3,500 feet at the eastern border of Colorado, to 6,000 feet east of the Denver Basin
Denver Basin

The Denver Basin, sometimes also called the Julesburg Basin, Denver-Julesburg Basin , or the D-J Basin, is a geology structural basin centered in eastern Colorado in the United States, but extending into southeast Wyoming, western Nebraska, and western Kansas....
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The Eastern Plains of Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
 refers to region of the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Colorado on the east side of the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
, and east of the population centers of the Front Range
Colorado Front Range

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the State of Colorado in the United States which are just east of the foothills of the Front Range, from which the region takes its name....
.

Geography

The Eastern Plains are part of the High Plains
High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains in the central United States, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains....
, which are the westernmost portion of the Great Plains
Great Plains

The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada....
 region. The region is mostly characterized by rolling plains, divided by the shallow South Platte River
South Platte River

The South Platte River, historically known as the Rio Jesus Maria, is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and itself a major river of the American West, located in the U.S....
 and Arkansas River
Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S....
 valleys. The Eastern Plains rise from 3,500 feet at the eastern border of Colorado, to 6,000 feet east of the Denver Basin
Denver Basin

The Denver Basin, sometimes also called the Julesburg Basin, Denver-Julesburg Basin , or the D-J Basin, is a geology structural basin centered in eastern Colorado in the United States, but extending into southeast Wyoming, western Nebraska, and western Kansas....
. The Eastern Plains have a semi-arid climate, like all of the High Plains, but receive lower rainfall than areas to the south and east.

History

The Eastern Colorado plains are among the most sparsely populated areas in the continental United States. Most of the region, with the exception of comparatively urban areas like Fort Morgan
Fort Morgan, Colorado

The City of Fort Morgan is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Morgan County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
, are experiencing depopulation, which in some areas began with the influenza pandemic of 1918
Spanish flu

The 1918 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus Strain of subtype H1N1....
 and agricultural price collapses after World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agriculture damage to United States and Canada prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 ....
 devastated the region and further accelerated this outmigration. Kiowa County
Kiowa County, Colorado

Kiowa County is the second least densely populated of the Colorado counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 1,622 at the United States Census, 2000....
 demonstrates the population decline and its associated effects.

Both the Pawnee National Grasslands and Comanche National Grassland
Comanche National Grassland

Comanche National Grassland is a National Grassland located in southeastern Colorado, United States. It is the sister grassland of Cimarron National Grassland and contains both prairie grasslands and canyons....
s are located in the Eastern Plains; they are composed of marginal farmlands which were withdrawn from agriculture and consolidated under federal control beginning during the Dust Bowl.

Most of the Eastern Plains region lies within Colorado's 4th congressional district
Colorado's 4th congressional district

The 4th Congressional district of Colorado is located in eastern Colorado, encompassing most of Colorado's rural Colorado Eastern Plains, as well as the larger cities of Fort Collins, Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, Loveland, Colorado and Longmont, Colorado along Colorado's Front Range in north-central Colorado....
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Even though Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
 is considered a quintessential Western
Western United States

The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost U.S....
 state, this region is sometimes considered the Midwest.

See also

  • Shortgrass prairie
    Shortgrass prairie

    The shortgrass prairie ecosystem of the North American Great Plains is a prairie that formerly encompassed lands from the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains east to Nebraska, including rangelands in Colorado and Kansas, and extending to the south through the High Plains of Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico....
  • High Plains (United States)
    High Plains (United States)

    The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains in the central United States, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains....
  • Dust Bowl
    Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agriculture damage to United States and Canada prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 ....
  • Buffalo Commons
    Buffalo Commons

    The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American Bison that once grazed the shortgrass prairie....