Routt County, Colorado |Routt County, Colorado| Location in the
state of Colorado Colorado's location in the U.S.
|Founded||January 29, 1877| |Named for||John Long Routt|
|Largest city||Steamboat Springs| 2,368.02 sq mi (6,133 km²)
2,361.59 sq mi (6,116 km²) 6.43 sq mi (17 km²), 0.27% 8.3/sq mi
(3.2/km²) |Time zone||Mountain: UTC-7/-6| Routt County is the
15th most extensive of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado
of the United States. The county population was 19,690 at U.S.
Census 2000. The county seat is Steamboat Springs. Routt County
was created out of the western portion of Grand County on
January 29, 1877. It was named in honor of John Long Routt, the
last territorial and first state governor of Colorado. The
western portion of Routt County was split off to form Moffat
County on February 27, 1911. According to the 2000 census, the
county has a total area of 2,368.02 square miles (6,133.1 km2),
of which 2,361.59 square miles (6,116.5 km2) (or 99.73%) is land
and 6.43 square miles (16.7 km2) (or 0.27