Pitkin County

Pitkin County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county is named in honor of the late Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin. The county population was 14,872 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is Aspen. Piktin County has the fourth highest per-capita income of any county in the United States. According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 973.23 square miles (2,520.7 km), of which 970.42 square miles (2,513.4 km) (or 99.71%) is land and 2.81 square miles (7.3 km) (or 0.29%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 14,872 people, 6,807 households, and 3,185 families residing in the county. The population density was 15 people per square mile (6/km²). There were 10,096...