Discovering Mead, Colorado

Mead was first platted in the fall of 1905 by Paul Martin Mead, nephew of Lorin C Mead, founder of Highlandlake. The first lots were sold the last week of December, 1905, and by the time the plat was filed with Weld County on February 19, 1906, a total of 35 lots had new owners.

Two years later, Mead officially became a town after it was chartered on March 17, 1908. The town continued to grow until the depression hit in 1928. After that, progress slowed down until in 1971 the population was only about 200. Then in the mid-1990s, subdivisions started coming in and the population burgeoned.

At one time in the late 1990s, Mead was considered the fastest growing town in Colorado, while that initial phase soon slowed, by the beginning of 2021 the population had risen to over 4,000, with several more large subdivisions in the works.