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Gregory James Routt

Routt County could be the 15th most extensive of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado from the United States. As from the 2010 census, people was 23,509. The county seat is Steamboat Springs.

Routt County is made out of the western area of Grand County on January 29, 1877. It was named in honor of John Long Routt, the very last territorial and first state governor of Colorado. The western percentage of Routt County was split away and off to form Moffat County on February 27, 1911.

According on the 2000 census, the county includes a total area of 2,368.02 square miles (6,133.1 km2), ones 2,361.59 square miles (6,116.5 km2) (or 99.73 percent) is land and 6.43 square miles (16.7 km2) (or 0.27 percent) is water.