Adams County, named after former Colorado Governor Alva Adams, encompasses 1,184 square miles in northeast Colorado. A long, irregular rectangle, the county stretches across the plains from its western boundary north of Denver to its eastern edge at the…

Denver is the capital of Colorado and the twenty-first largest city in the United States, sprawling over six counties and 3,497 square miles of the High Plains and the Rocky Mountain foothills. Centered at the confluence of the South Platte River and…

Jefferson County, commonly referred to as “Jeffco,” is named after former president Thomas Jefferson and covers 774 square miles in central Colorado west of Denver. Jeffco is bordered to the north by Boulder and Broomfield Counties, to the east by Adams,…