Florissant, CO

Florissant is an unincorporated community, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Teller County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 128, residents. The CDP is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Florissant, Colorado Territory, post office opened on November 20, 1872. The short version is that Florissant carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Florissant: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Florissant, Colorado, was named after Florissant, Missouri, the hometown of Judge James Castello, an early settler. Florissant is located immediately north of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.