Limon is a statutory town in Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.

Preston Porter Jr, a sixteen-year-old African-American male, had confessed under duress to the murder of eleven-year-old Louise Frost who was Caucasian.

Porter was apparently being held some 90 miles away in Denver, but was sent back to Limon by request of unspecified people and against the wishes of Sheriff Freeman.

Originally it was announced that Porter would be hanged but many in the crowd including R. W. Frost, the girl's father, objected "that such a death would be too easy."

While waiting for his execution, Porter sat next to a bonfire reading the Gospel of Luke from the Bible.

Lynchings of this type were apparently rare, as reporters on the scene wrote: "The general sentiment expressed approves the execution of the negro, but deprecates the method adopted.

"[8] On June 6, 1990, an F3 tornado touched down near Matheson (about 16 miles west of Limon), tearing roughly east-northeast through fields.

Governor Roy Romer declared Limon a disaster area the next day.

[9] Limon successfully rebuilt its business district adding streetscaping, a new Town Hall, relocating a medical clinic and Limon Memorial Library, creating Hub City Senior Center and a new fire station.

It lies on the north side of Big Sandy Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River, on the eastern edge of the Colorado Piedmont region of the Great Plains, and is near the eastern end of the Palmer Divide.

[14][15] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.

[16] Limon has a semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) with cold, dry winters and warm, mildly wetter summers.

Due to its location on the eastern plains, the town is often subject to severe, sometimes violent thunderstorms throughout the summer.

Large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain, and tornadoes are common in the summer months.

The Limon Leader is the city's weekly newspaper, published by Hoffman Publications, LLC and has a circulation of about 3,200 copies.

[citation needed] US 287 southwards is planned to become Interstate 27 then it follow the Heartland Expressway northwards.

The two-runway airport encompasses approximately 397 acres (161 ha) and is owned and operated by the town government.