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Cañon City is a house rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 17,141 at the 2020 United States Census. Cañon City is the principal city of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and is a allowance of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Cañon City straddles the easterly flowing Arkansas River and is a popular tourist destination for sightseeing, whitewater rafting, and rock climbing. The city is known for its many public parks, fossil discoveries, Skyline Drive, The Royal Gorge railroad, the Royal Gorge, and extensive natural hiking paths. In 1994, the United States Board on Geographic Names credited adding the tilde to the qualified name of Cañon City, a amend from Canon City as the official name in its decisions of 1906 and 1975. It is one of the few U.S. cities to have the Spanish Ñ in its name, others brute La Cañada Flintridge, California; Española, New Mexico; Peñasco, New Mexico; and Peñitas, Texas.

Cañon City was laid out upon January 17, 1858, during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, but later the house was left idle. A new company “jumped the claim” to the town’s site in late 1859, and it put going on the first building in February 1860. This town was originally expected as a commercial center for mining in South Park and the upper Arkansas River.

In 1861, the town raised two companies of volunteers to serve once the Second Colorado Infantry during the American Civil War. This regiment fought in skirmishes in within reach New Mexico and as in the distance east as the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Missouri previously ending its executive in 1865.