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Denver is the largest city and capital of the state of Colorado, United States of America. It is the largest city along the Front Range and forms the heart of the Denver Metropolitan Area.
The city is located on the plains just east of the foothills of the Rockies, which form a dramatic skyline to the west. The central downtown district is on the east side of the South Platte River, near its confluence with Cherry Creek, approximately ten miles from the foothills.
It is the county seat of, and coextensive with, Denver County. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 554,636. Also as of the 2000 census, the population of the Denver metropolitan area was 2,581,506, making it the 19th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The city is also host to four different major league sports.
Denver is nicknamed the "Mile-High City", because its official elevation, measured on one of the steps on the state capitol, is 5,280 feet (1 mileA mile is any of several units of distance, or, as physicists say, of length. Today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 metres on land and 1852 metres at sea and in the air, but see below for the details. Current definitions The meanings of mile that) above sea level. This step is marked by the fact that it is gold-coated, rather than being solid stone like the other steps. (The elevation is 1655.4 m (5431 ft.), as surveyed at the Denver International AirportDenver International Airport is a major international airport located in northeastern Denver, Colorado. It ranks among the top 10 busiest airports in the United States and is the largest airport in area in the country. It is a major hub for United Airline). Also, a row of seats in the upper deck of Coors FieldCoors Field Location Denver, Colorado Opened April 26, 1995 Capacity 50,200 Owned By Denver Metropolitan Baseball Stadium District Architect: HOK Sport Dimensions: Left Left-Ctr. Center Right-Ctr. Right 347 ft. Coors Field in Denver, Colorado is the home, home of Major League BaseballMajor League Baseball MLB is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. More specifically, Major League Baseball ("MLB") refers to the entity that operates North America's two top leagues, the National League and the American Lea's Colorado RockiesThis is an article about the baseball team. For the National Hockey League Rockies team ( 1976- 1982), see Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. They are in the Western Division of the National L ( NLThis article refers to the American baseball league. For the English cricket league of the same name, please see National League (cricket). The term National League generally refers to the organization more properly referred to as the National League of P), is distinctively marked in purple (one of the team's colors) to indicate that the row is one mile above sea level.
Denver has also been known historically as the Queen City of the Plains because of its important role in the agricultural industry of the plains regions along the foothills of the Front Range.
Several US Navy ships have been named USS DenverThree ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Denver after the city of Denver, Colorado. The first Denver (C-14) was a cruiser commissioned in 1904 and in service until 1931. The second Denver (CL-58) was a light cruiser commissioned 1942 and in honor of the city.
Denver was founded in the Kansas Territory in 1858. On November 22 of that year, General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, placed cottonwood logs to stake a square-mile claim on the hill overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek from the existing mining settlement of Auraria.
The site was accessible to existing trails and had previously been the site of seasonal encampments of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Larimer, along with associates in the Denver City Land Company, sold parcels in the town to merchants and miners, with the intention of creating a major city that would cater to new emigrants. The name "Denver City" was chosen to honor Kansas territorial governor James W. Denver, in order to ensure that the city would become the county seat of then Arapaho County, Kansas.
In the first few years, while the town grew, land parcels were often traded freely for grubstakes and in the course of gambling by miners in Auraria. The city was incorporated on November 7, 1861, several months after the formation of the Colorado Territory.
Denver was selected to host the 1976 Winter Olympics to coincide with Colorado's centennial anniversary, but Colorado voters struck down ballot initiatives allocating public funds to pay for the high costs of the games, so they were moved to Innsbruck, Austria. The movement against hosting the games was based largely on environmental issues and was led by then State Senator Richard Lamm. Lamm was subsequently elected as Colorado governor in 1974.
On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre occurred at Columbine High School, which is located southwest of Denver in an unincorporated area in suburban Jefferson County; the school has a Littleton address.
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