Greeley
| City in northern Colorado, USA, at the point where the Cache de Poudre River flows into the South Platte River, 70 km/43 mi north of Denver; seat of Weld County; population (2000) 76,900. Greeley is situated in a belt of irrigated farmlands on the Colorado Piedmont, and is a distribution centre for the area; its main industries are meat packing and the processing of sugar beet. Other industries include the manufacture of photographic materials, fishing equipment, and chemicals. |
| The city was founded in 1870 as Union Colony, a cooperative agricultural enterprise, and was renamed after one of its founders, the publisher Horace Greeley, when it was incorporated in 1885. |
| Greeley is the seat of the University of Northern Colorado (1889). |
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