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In 1887, a decimal grid was imposed. Instead of counting addresses up arbitrarily along a direction, this system specified a "hundred block" for each street. For example, First Street is the 100 block, with all addresses on any named street between First and Second Streets ascending from 100 (nearest First Street) to 199 (nearest Second Street).
Golden Triangle – an area incorporating many of Denver's civic and cultural institutions, closely corresponds with the Civic Center neighborhood; Hampden Heights; LoDo – "Lower Downtown," the original settlement of Denver, with many of its oldest buildings, overlapping parts of the Union Station and Five Points neighborhoods
Through a variety of measures the area's air quality was improved and in 2002 the EPA designated the area in compliance with all federal health-based air quality standards. Denver was the first major city in the United States to reach compliance with all six of these standards after previously violating five of them. [9]
Curtis–Champa Streets Historic District is located in Denver, Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is bounded by Arapahoe, 30th, California, and 24th Sts. covering 870 acres and 356 buildings. [ 2 ]
Baker is an area of 955 acres (3.86 km 2), approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Denver Civic Center, generally defined by these boundaries: on the north by West 6th Avenue, on the east by Broadway, on the south by West Mississippi Avenue, and on the west by the South Platte River. [2] [3]
The neighborhood is located near the geographic center of the City and County of Denver and is a mixture of dense urban development and tree lined residential streets. It is bounded by the Cherry Creek on the south, East Sixth Avenue to the north, University Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard ( Colorado State Highway 2 ) on the west and east ...
Location of Five Points in Denver At one period, when segregation was the law, an area centered around the Welton Corridor had an African American -majority population. But according to the Census, years of demographic change have brought about a majority white population (77 percent), a large Latino population (19 percent), with the black ...
Clickable map of Colorado area codes in blue (with bordering states). [1] The U.S. state of Colorado is served by five telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area code 303 is the original area code assigned to the entire state when the first nationwide telephone numbering plan was created in 1947.