Denver: Fast Facts

US City Rank: 21st

Colorado City Rank: 1st (also its capital)

Nickname(s): The Mile High City, Queen City of the Plains

Elevation: 5280 ft. (1 mile) denoted by the purple row of seats in Coors Field and the 15th step on the west side of the Capitol Building

Incorporated: November, 1861 (founded November 1958)

Location: In the South Platte River Valley at the base and just east of the Southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado

GPS: Latitude 39.78N, Longitude -104.59W

Major Airport: Denver International Airport (DIA), at 53 sq. mi., one of the largest (in terms of land area) airports in the world

Climate: Semi-arid with cold to mild winters and mild to warm summers

Time Zone: MST (GMT -7)

Area Code(s): 303, 719, 720, 970

Olympic Site: Chosen for the 1976 Winter Olympics, Denver is the only US city ever to turn down the games

City Park System: Largest in the US with 205 parks within city limits and 20,000 acres of parks in the nearby mountains