Clear Creek
Clear Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 66 miles long, in north central Colorado in the United States. The creek flows through Clear Creek Canyon in the Rocky Mountains directly west of Denver, descending through a long gorge to emerge at the town of Golden, finally ending in the Colorado Eastern Plains where it joins the South Platte.Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Original Thornton/88th station and Cherokee Generating Station.
Original Thornton/88th station
Railway station
Original Thornton/88th station is a station on the N Line of the Denver RTD commuter rail system in Thornton, Colorado. It is located north of 88th Avenue and west of Welby Road; a section of Welby was moved 1⁄4 mile to a new alignment linear with Steele Street. Original Thornton/88th station is situated 2 miles north of Clear Creek.
Cherokee Generating Station
Power station
Cherokee Generating Station is a natural gas-fired power plant in North Washington, Colorado, about 5 miles north of downtown Denver. Cherokee currently has a nameplate capacity of 1006.4 megawatts and a net summer capacity of 886 megawatts, making it the largest power plant in Adams County and the second-largest natural gas–fired plant in the state behind Fort St. Cherokee Generating Station is situated 1½ miles southwest of Clear Creek.
Riverside Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Riverside Cemetery, established in 1876, is Denver, Colorado's oldest operating cemetery. More than 67,000 people are buried there, including 1,000 veterans. Riverside Cemetery is situated 2½ miles south of Clear Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Commerce City and Derby.
Commerce City
Town
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.
Commerce City is a home rule city located in Adams County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 62,418 at the 2020 United States census, a 35.95% increase since the 2010 United States census. Commerce City is situated 1½ miles southeast of Clear Creek.
Derby
Village
Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0.
Derby is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Derby is situated 2 miles northeast of Clear Creek.
Dupont
Hamlet
Dupont is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The Dupont Post Office has the ZIP Code 80024. Dupont is situated 2 miles east of Clear Creek.
Clear Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the South Platte River in north central Colorado, United States
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Clear Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Clear Creek”
- Cebuano: “Clear Creek”
- Chinese: “清水溪”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كليار كريك”
- French: “Clear Creek”
- German: “Clear Creek (South Platte River)”
- German: “Clear Creek”
- Hungarian: “Clear Creek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Clear Creek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clear Creek”
- Slovenian: “Clear Creek”
- Swedish: “Clear Creek”
- Venetian: “Clear”
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