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Burlington is located on the High Plains in eastern Colorado. At the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total area of 1,378 acres (5.575 km 2), all of it land. [5] The easternmost interchange in Colorado on Interstate 70 is located at Burlington, 12 miles (19 km) west of the Kansas state line.
Kit Carson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,087. [1] The county seat is Burlington. [2] The county was established in 1889 and named for American frontiersman and Indian fighter Kit Carson. [3] [4]
Area code 303 is the original area code assigned to the entire state when the first nationwide telephone numbering plan was created in 1947. Today it only serves the greater Denver Metropolitan Area. Area codes 720 and 983 are overlay codes for today's 303 numbering plan area (NPA). Area code 719 serves Colorado Springs and southeastern Colorado.
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.
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 .
The town was established in 1888 as a small settlement near the then-new Rock Island Railroad.The area has had several names, and prior to the settlement of the town, the location had been home to a combined general store and post office, owned by W.H. Lavington, and named Bowser in memory of the owner's favorite dog who had died. [7]
South Park is a grassland flat within the basin formed by the Rocky Mountains' Mosquito and Park Mountain Ranges [1] within central Colorado. This high valley ranges in elevation from approximately 9,000 to 10,000 ft (3,000 m).
Peoria is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Peoria CDP was 153 at the United States Census 2020. [3]