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Thornton
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city in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado, United States
Thornton is a city located in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado. It is part of the Denver metropolitan area and has grown to become one of the state's larger municipalities.
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Official website
City of Thornton
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- Daniel I.J. Thornton
- Official name
- Thornton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Weld County
- Population
- 11353
- Area
- 93.112567
- Elevation
- 1631
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Official website
- www.cityofthornton.net
- Image
- Thornton, CO, welcome sign IMG 5209.JPG
- Households
- 46868
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- topic's main category
- Category:Thornton, Colorado
- Commons category
- Thornton, Colorado
- inception
- 1956-06-12
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Thornton, Colorado
- water as percent of area
- 3.0822
- different from
- Thornton
- water area
- 2.869961
- per capita income
- 32589
- postal code
- 80241
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Encyclopedic overview
Thornton is a home rule city located in Adams and Weld counties, Colorado, United States. The city population was 141,867, all in Adams County, at the 2020 United States census, an increase of 19.44% since the 2010 United States census. Thornton is the sixth-most-populous city in Colorado and the 191st-most-populous city in the United States. Thornton is 10 miles (16 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver and is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO Combined Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thornton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.