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Time zone: Mountain
Area code: 303 and 720
County: Denver County
Land area: 153.3 square miles
Altitude: 5,280 feet above sea level
Derivation of name: from James William Denver, Kansas Territory governor
Nickname(s) or motto: Mile High City; City in the Clouds; Mining Town with a Heart; Queen City of the Rockies; Queen City of the Plains
Major suburbs: Boulder, Colo., Louisville, Colo., Westminster, Colo., Arvada, Colo., Lakewood, Colo., Englewood, Colo., Littleton, Colo., and Aurora, Colo.
History: Settled 1858 by gold prospectors and miners; incorporated as city 1861,became territorial capital 1867; growth spurred by gold and silver boom; financial, industrial and cultural center of Rocky-Mountain region; largest city in Colorado; serves as state capital; home of the Buffalo Bill Museum.
Total population (metro area): 1,979,000
Population density: 3,248 per square mile
Population influx, by state (percentage of American-born residents who are natives of other states) (as of 1994):
54.7% (for Colorado) (No. 6 highest population influx among 50 U.S. states)
Projected population growth, by state (projected population change: 1988 through 2020) (as of 1994):
29.3% (for Colorado) (No. 8 highest projected population growth among 50 U.S. states)
Geo Location
Denver lies on the flat plains abutting the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 660 miles (1060km) northwest of Dallas, 900 miles (1450km) west of Chicago and 960 miles (1550km) east of San Francisco. The city's streets and avenues follow a compass-oriented grid pattern outside the diagonal swath of downtown. The State Capitol is on the southeastern edge of downtown. West of the capitol are the Civic Center and the Denver Art Museum. Lower Downtown ('LoDo' to the locals), home to many of Denver's most historic buildings, sits between Larimer Square and Union Station at the northwestern corner of the downtown grid.
The non-navigable South Platte River flows just north of downtown and is lined by trails and roads that snake into the mountains to the southwest. Colfax Ave (Hwy 40), one of the longest streets in the USA, bisects the city on its 40 mile (65km) journey from Strasburg to Golden.
Denver International Airport (DIA) is located 24 miles (40km) northeast of downtown. The downtown Denver Bus Terminal is immediately north of the capitol; trains converge on neoclassical Union Station at the northwestern edge of the downtown grid.
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