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Routt County will be the 15th most extensive from the 64 counties with the state of Colorado with the United States. As with the 2010 census, people was 23,509. 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 final 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 section of 2,368.02 square miles (6,133.1 km2), which 2,361.59 square miles (6,116.5 km2) (or 99.73 percent) is land and 6.43 square miles (16.7 km2) (or 0.27 percent) is water.