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Milliken, Colorado
Town in Colorado, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Milliken is a statutory town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 8,386 at the 2020 United States census.[5]
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History
The town was named for John D. Milliken, a Judge.
The first community located near the Milliken townsite was initially known as Hillsboro. The community began as a trading post on the Denver, Laramie, and Northwestern Railroad for agricultural goods in the 1860s. By 1908 the town of Milliken had grown up nearby Hillsboro, and in 1910 Hillsboro was annexed by Milliken.
Fires in the 1910s destroyed much of the town, and in 1917 the Denver, Laramie, and Northwestern Railroad was abandoned.
Milliken continued as a primarily farming community through the depression and world wars. In the 1950s two large potato decks were constructed. The late 1960s and early 1970s brought a housing boom.
In 1985 and 1986 the town roads were paved. The town continued to grow, causing the town government to move its facilities, in 1996, into the Milliken Community Complex. Additional facilities were added, including the Milliken Public Work Facility in 2004, and a new police station in 2009.[7]
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Geography
Milliken is located at 40°19′52″N 104°51′36″W (40.331073, -104.859878).[8]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.7 square miles (15 km2), all of it land.
Demographics
Education
Milliken is served by the Weld Re-5J School District. Children in the town attend Milliken Elementary School, Knowledge Quest Academy (KQA) and Civica. Roosevelt Middle School (Formally known as Milliken Middle school from 1969-2024) and Roosevelt High School Are both located in nearby Johnstown. And in the 2025-26 school year 3rd through 5th graders will attend the former Milliken Middle School renamed and repurposed into Milliken Intermediate School[10].
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Daniels School
The Daniels School, in Milliken in Weld County, Colorado, was built in 1911. It is a two-room schoolhouse, with a partition that allowed separation of grades 1–4 vs. grades 5–8, which operated from 1911 to 1959.[11] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[12]It was built on a one-acre (0.40 ha) plot of land donated to the school district by James Daniels in 1879. A wood-frame schoolhouse was built first; it was sold and moved off the property to enable replacement by the present brick building in 1911. James Daniels served as director of the school for many years. The school was named, however, for his brother, Henry Daniels, who was a pioneer in the Big Thompson Valley area before Johnstown and Milliken existed.[13] But Daniels school is just one of the many historic buildings around Milliken.
The school in 2012
the school in 2018
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See also
- Outline of Colorado
- State of Colorado
- Dent site, near Milliken, the first site to provide evidence that men hunted mammoth
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