Wheat Ridge
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city in Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Jefferson County
- City
- Wheat Ridge
- Incorporated
- June 17, 1969
- Total
- 9.58 sq mi (24.8 km )
- Land
- 9.34 sq mi (24.2 km )
- Water
- 0.24 sq mi (0.62 km )
- Elevation
- 5,459 ft (1,664 m)
- Density
- 3,470/sq mi (1,340/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Zip codes
- 80212, 80214, 80215, 80033, 80034
- Area codes
- 303 , 720
- Fips code
- 08-84440
- Website
- www .ci .wheatridge .co .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Wheat Ridge
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 32398
- Area
- 24.727368
- Elevation
- 5459
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Official website
- www.ci.wheatridge.co.us
- Image
- Queen of Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Wheat Ridge Colorado.jpg
- Households
- 14264
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- topic's main category
- Category:Wheat Ridge, Colorado
- postal code
- 80034
- Commons category
- Wheat Ridge, Colorado
- inception
- 1859-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wheat Ridge, Colorado
- water as percent of area
- 2.5576
- P8168
- Čurug
- water area
- 0.632436
- per capita income
- 40375
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Encyclopedic overview
The City of Wheat Ridge is a home rule municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Wheat Ridge is located immediately west of Denver and is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Wheat Ridge Municipal Center is approximately 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. The city had a population of 32,398 as of the 2020 Census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wheat Ridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.