Facts About Greeley

• Population (This is how many people live in the Greeley area) is 100,000 (One hundred thousand). In July 2007, the population of Greeley was 90,306.
  
  
• Elevation (This is how high we are above sea-level) is 4,658 feet.
  
  
• Average High Temperature: December is 41 degrees
  and in July it is 89 degrees.
  
  
• Annual Precipitation (This is how much rain falls in a year) is 13 inches. We are semi-arid.
  
  
• Annual snowfall is 35 inches.
  
  
• There are an average of 270 days of sunshine a year.
  
  
• It covers an area of 27.58 square miles.
  
  
• Its longitude is 104.37 degrees west. (This is the location on the globe running east to west)
  
  
• Its latitude is 40.25 degrees north. (This is the location on the globe running north to south)
  
  

•Weld County was the first to use water to convert the land into one of the top three agricultural (farming) counties in the USA.

•Weld County was the first to move the melted snow from the mountains that would have flowed west to the Pacific Ocean to the eastern slopes of Colorado for use in irrigation.

•Sprinkler technology (systems) and use was also developed here.

•Greeley is the largest community not located along the interstate highways. Greeley chose not to be located along Interstate 25 because it did not want to waste the farmland.