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The Town of Berthoud is a Statutory Town located in Larimer and Weld counties, Colorado, United States. The town population was 10,332 at the 2020 United States Census subsequently 10,071 residing in Larimer County and 261 residing in Weld County. Berthoud is situated north of the Little Thompson River, 21 miles (34 km) south of Fort Collins and 43 miles (69 km) north of Denver in the Front Range Urban Corridor.

White settlers first came to the present-day Berthoud Place in the further on 1860s, following the Colorado Gold Rush. Many settlers filed homestead claims, but most bellied happening and left the valley to hardier souls who ranched and farmed the arid prairie that straddled the river bottom.

In 1872, a miner-turned-rancher from Central City, Colorado, Lewis Cross, staked the first homestead allegation where the Colorado Central Railroad planned to heated Little Thompson creek. When the tracks were laid through the valley in 1877 a depot, section house, and water tank were installed at this strategic site. The tiny deal known as Little Thompson was renamed Berthoud in award of Edward L. Berthoud, who had surveyed the rail route through the valley.