Lakewood, Colorado Lakewood, Colorado City of Lakewood Location in Jefferson County and the State of Colorado Location in Jefferson County and the State of Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Location of Colorado in the United States State Colorado Website City of Lakewood Fifth most crowded Colorado town/city The City of Lakewood is a Home Rule Municipality which is the most crowded municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
Lakewood is the fifth most crowded city in the State of Colorado and the 172nd most crowded city in the United States.
The town/city population was 142,980 at the 2010 United States Census.
Lakewood is west of Denver and is part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The urban/suburban evolution of the improve known as Lakewood was begun in 1889 by Charles Welch and W.A.H.
Loveland, who platted a 13-block region along Colfax Avenue west of Denver in easterly Jefferson County.
Loveland, the former president of the Colorado Central Railroad, retired to the new improve of Lakewood after many years of living in Golden. Until 1969, the region known as Lakewood had no municipal government, relying instead on a several water districts, a several fire districts, and the government of Jefferson County.
Lakewood was a improve with policing provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff, a several volunteer staffed fire districts, and some neighborhoods without street lights and sidewalks.
The City of Lakewood was incorporated in 1969 as Jefferson City.
Soon after, an election was held and the city's name was changed to Lakewood.
This was due to an overwhelming dislike of "Jefferson City" and the perceived notion it would be confused with existing communities in Colorado and Missouri. At the time of incorporation the town/city population was already over 90,000. Lakewood never had a traditional downtown area. West Colfax Avenue served the urbane region as U.S.
The Villa Italia Mall on West Alameda Avenue, twenty blocks south of Colfax, reflected the southward expansion of Lakewood settlement and homed a larger concentration of retail space.
As the mall went into decline, the Lakewood City Council advanced a plan to demolish the Villa Italia Mall and replace it with a new evolution called Belmar. In 2011, Lakewood was titled an All-America City for the first time.
Lakewood is positioned at 39 42 17 N 105 04 53 W at an altitude of 5,518 feet (1,682 m). Located at the junction of U.S.
Route 6 and Colorado State Highway 121 in central Colorado, the town/city lies immediately west of Denver and 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Colorado Springs. Lakewood lies in the Colorado Piedmont on the edge of the Great Plains just east of the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Green Mountain, a mesa 6,854 feet (2,089 m) tall, is positioned in the far west-central part of the city. The town/city is positioned in the watershed of the South Platte River, and a several small tributaries of the river flow generally east through it.
From north to south, these include Lakewood Gulch, Weir Gulch, Sanderson Gulch, and Bear Creek.
Two tributaries of Lakewood Gulch, Dry Gulch and Mc - Intyre Gulch, flow east through the northern part of the city.
Turkey Creek, a tributary of Bear Creek, flows northeast through the far southwestern part of the city.
There are a several small lakes and reservoirs in Lakewood.
Clustered near each other in central Lakewood are Main Reservoir, East Reservoir, Smith Reservoir, Kendrick Lake, and Cottonwood Lake.
In the northwestern part of the city, Lena Gulch both feeds and drains Maple Grove Reservoir.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 44.06 square miles (114.1 km2) of which 42.88 square miles (111.1 km2) is territory and 1.18 square miles (3.1 km2) (2.7%) is water. As a suburb of Denver, Lakewood is part of both the greater Denver urbane region and the Front Range Urban Corridor. It borders other communities on all sides including: Wheat Ridge to the north, Edgewater to the northeast, Denver to the east and southeast, Dakota Ridge to the south, Morrison to the southwest, and Golden, West Pleasant View, East Pleasant View, and Applewood to the northwest. Climate data for Lakewood, Colorado The cost of living in Lakewood is above average; compared to a U.S.
Average of 100, the cost of living index for the improve is 107.4. As of 2013, the median home value in the town/city was $238,500, the median chose monthly owner cost was $1,546 for housing units with a mortgage and $442 for those without, and the median gross rent was $940. According to the City's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 5 City of Lakewood 893 Citizens elect a City Council consisting of the Mayor, who is propel at-large, and 10 City Council members, two from each of the city's five geographical wards.
Almost the entirety of the City of Lakewood falls into Colorado House District 26.
Lakewood is represented in the state House by Rep.
Lakewood also homes Lakewood High School, Green Mountain High School, Bear Creek High School, Brady Exploration High School, Alameda International High School, and International Baccalaureate schools in Jefferson County.
Lakewood is also home to Colorado Christian University.
The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar was positioned in Belmar until May 2009, and that locale is now occupied by the Colorado Campus of The Ohio Center for Broadcasting, a private trade school for the radio and tv industry.
Lakewood Heritage Center is a exhibition with a several historic buildings and is positioned near Kountze Lake, which formerly homed the Belmar Mansion.
Harley-Davidson dealership on Colfax Avenue is homed in what was originally the Lakewood movie theater dating from the early 1950s.
Lakewood has a shopping mall called Colorado Mills which is near I-70 and Colfax Avenue.
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