Pitkin County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county is named in honor of the late Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin. The county population was 14,872 at U.S. Census 2000.^[1] The county seat is Aspen. Piktin County has the fourth highest per-capita income of any county in the United States.

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