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Arvada (/ ɑːr ˈ v æ d ə /) is a Home Rule City located in Jefferson and Adams counties, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 124,402 at the 2020 United States Census , with 121,510 residing in Jefferson County and 2,892 in Adams County. [ 8 ]
Ralston continued panning for gold, but after a few days gave up and caught up with his party. The site of Lewis Ralston's gold discovery now lies along Ralston Creek in the City of Arvada's Gold Strike Park. In 1858, Ralston brought another group of prospectors back to the site of his 1850 discovery.
Leyden, Colorado, elevation 5,656 feet (1,724 m) [1] is a small unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado west of Arvada at the junction of West 82nd Avenue and Quaker Street. It is a historic company town established by the Leyden Coal Company in 1902 to house the miners of the Leyden Coal Mine nearby to the west.
This 6,500-acre Rocky Flats Site was one of 13 nuclear weapons production facilities in the United States during the Cold War and was managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The plant operated from 1952 to 1994 with manufacturing activities taking place in the center portion of the site with a large buffer zone around the area. [3]
Water in Colorado is of significant importance, as the American state of Colorado is the 7th-driest state in America. [1] As result, water rights generate conflict (for example, see Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States), with many water lawyers in the state. Dillon Reservoir in Summit County, part of the Denver Water Board
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Candelas is the largest master-planned community in Arvada, Colorado. [1] The residential portion of the community is developed by Terra Causa Capital and GF Properties Group (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe), with residences built by Century Communities, Richmond American, Ryland Homes, Standard Pacific Homes, Village Homes, and various custom builders.
The High Line Canal is not the only one so named. Others in Colorado include the Farmer's High Line (which flows from Golden passing through Westminster and Thornton); the Government High Line (which irrigates Grand Junction and the surrounding Grand Valley); and the Rocky Ford High Line (which irrigates land in the Arkansas River Valley around Boone, Fowler, Manzanola, and Rocky Ford).