Crossword clues for denver
denver
- John of music
- Mile-high city
- "Rocky Mountain High" singer
- Regis University city
- John who loved Colorado
- Avalanche setting
- ''Rocky Mountain High'' singer
- ''Queen City of the Plains''
- Winner of the 1997 and 1998 Super Bowls
- Where Governor Thornton works
- State capital north of Colorado Springs
- New ____, British Columbia
- New _____ , British Columbia
- New ____ sandwich
- Mint site
- Mile High City
- Former Stapleton Airport site
- Coors Field setting
- Coors Field location
- Coors Field locale
- Coors Field city
- Colorado capital
- Western capital
- Stapleton Airport site
- Setting for part of Kerouac's "On the Road"
- Six Flags Elitch Gardens city
- Where I-25 and I-70 meet
- Censure
- Where Chipotle was founded and is headquartered
- Where Quiznos and Mapquest are headquartered
- The state capital and largest city of Colorado
- Located in central Colorado on the South Platte river
- Broncos' home
- Actor, in "Oh, God!"
- He wrote "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
- "Back Home Again" composer
- Singer John
- City's place of vice, always hiding its face
- City of Colorado
- Capital of Colorado
- Sudden verse reveals US male singer
- Part of Colorado Springs from garden, Versailles
- Colorado city Lumineers are from
- High capital
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Colorado, U.S., founded 1858 as Auraria ("golden"), renamed 1859 for Gen. James W. Denver (1817-1892), governor of the territory. The family name is from the place of that name in Norfolk, literally "ford or passage used by the Danes," from Old English Dena (genitive plural) + fær.\n
\nThe Denver boot or shoe as the name for a wheel clamp for illegally parked vehicles, supposedly was invented 1953 by Frank Marugg, pattern-maker and violinist with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. He was a friend of politicians and police department officials, and the city sheriff's department came to him for help in making a device to immobilize vehicles whose owners didn't pay parking tickets.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 251435
Land area (2000): 153.350592 sq. miles (397.176192 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.586631 sq. miles (4.109354 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 154.937223 sq. miles (401.285546 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20000
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.726287 N, 104.965486 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80202 80203 80204 80205 80206 80207
80220 80223 80224 80227 80231 80235
80236 80237 80239 80249
Headwords:
Denver
Housing Units (2000): 200
Land area (2000): 0.233390 sq. miles (0.604478 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.233390 sq. miles (0.604478 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17776
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.865277 N, 86.077746 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Denver
Housing Units (2000): 1298
Land area (2000): 1.306266 sq. miles (3.383214 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.306266 sq. miles (3.383214 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18888
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.233859 N, 76.137088 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 17517
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Headwords:
Denver
Housing Units (2000): 672
Land area (2000): 1.381231 sq. miles (3.577372 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.381231 sq. miles (3.577372 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20035
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.672070 N, 92.333604 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50622
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Headwords:
Denver
Housing Units (2000): 28
Land area (2000): 0.383208 sq. miles (0.992505 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.383208 sq. miles (0.992505 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19162
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.397562 N, 94.324051 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64441
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Headwords:
Denver
Wikipedia
Denver , officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level, making it one of the highest major cities in the United States. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.
Denver is ranked as a Beta- world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. With a 2015 estimated population of 682,545, Denver ranks as the 19th-most populous U.S. city, and with a 2.8% increase in 2015, the city is also the fastest growing major city in the United States. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated 2015 population of 2,814,330 and ranked as the 19th most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-city Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had an estimated 2015 population of 3,418,876, which ranks as the 16th most populous U.S. metropolitan area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching across two states with an estimated 2015 population of 4,757,713. Denver is the most populous city within a radius in the Mountain West and the second-most populous city in the Southwestern United States after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, Denver was named the best place to live in the USA by U.S. News & World Report.
Denver is the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado
Denver may also refer to:
"Denver" is a song written by Larry Gatlin, and recorded by American country music group Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers Band. It was released in March 1984 as the second single from the album Houston to Denver. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Denver is the surname or given name of:
- Bob Denver (1935–2005), actor most famous for playing the title character of Gilligan's Island
- James W. Denver (1817–1892), American politician for whom the Colorado capital is named
- John Denver (1943–1997), American singer-songwriter and actor
- Karl Denver (1931-1998), Scottish singer
- Matthew Denver (1870-1954), American politician and banker, son of James Denver
- Denver Beanland (born 1945), Australian politician
- Denver Lopez (born 1980), retired Philippine Basketball Association player
- Denver Nicks, American journalist and photographer
- Denver Pyle (1920–1997), actor and film star
Usage examples of "denver".
This Anasazi problem had a very high priority in Denver, and Longarm figured that he could have all the time and expense money that he needed to get it solved.
In places like Denver, Santa Fe, San Antonio and Centennial they evolved a placid, self-sustaining pattern of life, creating values of peace and joy which in years to come the Anglos would seek and not find.
He now shipped carloads of melons to Denver, raised sweet corn and was making a big success of his sugar beets, which for the time being he fed to cattle, since there was no sugar factory in the region.
New York or Paris or Denver imagining the light in Boca Grande, how flat it is, how harsh and still.
The arrival of a National Hockey League team in Denver brought him joy that was hard for me to understand until he took it upon himself to begin to teach me about offensive defensemen and blue lines and two-line passes and clearing zones and delayed offsides and the importance of finishing checks.
Chapter 10 To the great and overwhelming joy of such companies as the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Colorado Fuel and Iron, Estero Mining and Minerals, and Great Western Coal and Coke, the foothills of southern Colorado were riddled with easily accessible pockets of soft coal.
Along with the rest of the physicists, Jens Larssen watched tensely as Enrico Fermi manipulated the levers that raised the cadmium control rods from the heart of the rebuilt atomic pile under the University of Denver football stadium.
Denver, and, securing a strong fingerhold on the edge of the ledge, he dropped his full length into the darkness under the skylight.
Denver is an urban oasis, sequestered in relative privacy between the suburb-mimicking big-box sprawl of University Hills Shopping Center and the always-congested multilane ribbons of concrete that comprise Interstate 25, which bisects southeast Denver like a bypass scar on a cardiac patient.
And Holly Rodan, the overprivileged child from Denver, was the happiest of all.
Denver, Christa shifted into her most rarefied melodies: pointillistic licks that left in their wake only an aural impression of tension and of movement.
In 1994, a research team led by Kirk Johnson, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, discovered the fossil remains of a 64-million-year-old forest in a roadcut near Denver, Colorado.
The certainty of Denver that he would find it impossible to stay by his program of honest work had made a strong impression upon his imaginative mind, as though the little safecracker really had the power to look into the future and into the minds of men.
I put up a fervent little prayer that her particular sanitorium might not prove to be in the vicinity of Denver.
Passing out of the refinery zone, over and under freeways and railway lines, she entered a flat, hot warehouse region of north Denver that catered entirely to semitrailer rigs and the men who drove them.