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The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Boulder Crescent Place Historic District is a historic area in Colorado Springs, Colorado along West Boulder and Cascade Avenue near the intersection of the two streets. It is a National Register of Historic Places listing [ 3 ] and is on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties .
Colorado Springs is the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. [6] It is the most populous city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated four combined statistical areas, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and ten micropolitan statistical areas in Colorado. [1] As of 2023, the most populous of these statistical areas is the Denver–Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area , comprising the area around Colorado's capital and largest city of Denver .
Named after Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer, the Palmer Divide is a caprock escarpment-style ridge in central Colorado that separates the Arkansas River basin from the South Platte basin. It extends from the Front Range of the Rockies in central Colorado eastward approximately 80 miles toward the town of Limon.
Colorado's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. The district is located in the north-central part of the state, and encompasses the northwestern suburbs of Denver, including Boulder and Fort Collins. The district also includes the mountain towns of Vail, Granby, Steamboat Springs, and Idaho Springs.
The park entrance lies immediately west of Eldorado Springs on State Highway 170. To the west of El Dorado Canyon State Park is the Roosevelt National Forest and Colorado's Front Range. East of the site, there are the heavily populated areas of Boulder and Denver on the High Plains. [4]