The Municipality of Cañon Metropolis is a Place Generality Municipality that is the county position and the most populous municipality of Fremont County, River, Fused States. The Allied States Numeration Office estimates that the port universe was 16,000 in 2005. Cañon Port is famous for existence the parcel of 9 commonwealth and 4 yankee prisons. It straddles the River River, and is a touristed tourer direction for Whitewater rafting and shake climbing.  In 1994, the Card on Geographic Traducement authorised adding the tilde in the official folk of Cañon Municipality, a alter from Canon City as the attorney epithet in decisions of 1906 and 1975. Emory S. Inventor, U.S. Service evil admiral and decorated inventor, was innate in Cañon Port. It is one of the real few U.S. cities to human an eñe in its sept. Cañon City was laid out on 17 January 1858 during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, but then left idle. A new company "jumped" the townsite in late 1859, and put up the first building in February 1860. The town was originally intended as a commercial center for miners in South Park and the upper Arkansas River. In 1861 the town raised two companies of volunteers for service with the Second Colorado Infantry in the American Civil War. The regiment fought battles in nearby New Mexico and as far east as Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) and Missouri before mustering out of service in 1865. In 1862, A. M. Cassaday drilled for petroleum six miles north of town, near an oil seep. He struck oil at a depth of 50 feet, and completed the first commercial oil well west of the Mississippi. He drilled five or six more wells nearby, and refined kerosene and fuel oil from the petroleum, and sold the products in Denver. A number of ore smelters were built in Cañon City following the discovery of gold at Cripple Creek in 1891. As of the census of 2000, there were 15,431 people, 6,164 households, and 3,803 families residing in the city. The universe density was 1,28...