[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2), all of it land.

He made a point of returning to Wellington on an annual basis for his high school reunions up until 1999 when his physical health worsened significantly.

In the early 20th century, especially during the years of prohibition, Wellington doubled as a place to drink and a service town for drivers commuting from Cheyenne to Fort Collins and vice versa.

The town, more or less, sustained a population of 500 throughout the century which proceeded to build homes, restaurants, churches, and various other elements of small-town life.

In 2000, woolly mammoth remains were discovered by a construction crew while digging home foundations.

Colorado State University sent a team to carefully excavate and preserve the bones of the extinct animals; Wellington residents watched attentively.

Unfortunately, upon hoisting the remains out of the excavation site the tusks crumbled inside of the protective forms that were previously built around them.

Although population remained steady throughout the 20th century, Wellington experienced substantial growth in the 1990s and 2000s, in part as a bedroom community for the city of Fort Collins, which lies 10 miles to the south.