The City of Fountain is a home rule municipality located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

[5] Fountain is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Fountain is located 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Colorado Springs and just east of Fort Carson.

[8] Fountain was built in 1859 as a railroad shipping center for local ranches and farms.

[10] The cause of the wreck was attributed to a pair of unruly vagrants who were kicked off of the freight train north of Fountain in Colorado Springs.

After an investigation by The Rocky Mountain News, it was later reported that one of the two vagrants murdered a third man, Frank Shipman, on the freight train.

Thirty riders on board the northbound passenger train were able to escape the locomotive before the collision thanks to a frantic warning from the conductor.

The vagrants suspected at the root of Shipman's murder and the train wreck were never found and no one was ever charged with a crime.

It is commemorated with an annual street dance held at Fountain's City Hall Plaza each July.

The city was interested in the prime water rights on the property totaling 700 acre-feet (860,000 m3) a year.

They claim that they should be able to successfully receive 600 of that 700 acre-feet (860,000 m3) after the water courts have made their decisions.

Fountain has a municipal run bus that links the city with Pikes Peak State College.