The City of Sterling is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Logan County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 14,777 at the 2010 census. Sterling is located at 40°37′32″N 103°12′42″W / 40.62556°N 103.21167°W / 40.62556; -103.21167 . It is 128 miles northeast of Denver, and is located on Interstate 76, on the 'eastern plains' of northeastern Colorado. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.9 square miles , all of it land. The... original inhabitants of the Colorado High Plains near Sterling were probably paleo-Indians of the Clovis culture. The earliest known European visitors to the area were primarily French fur trappers searching for fertile beaver streams in the late-1700s. By that time, the principal Indian tribes occupying the region were the Arapaho and Cheyenne, although war and hunting parties of other Plains tribes such as the Sioux and Pawnee probably passed through.
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| County: | Logan County |
| State: | Colorado |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Population: | 12,712 |
| Area: | 6.9 sq. mi. |
| Time zone: | Mountain Time Zone |
| Also known as: | Sterling, Colorado, Logan County / Sterling city |