Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit

Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit is a quarry in Adams, Colorado and has an elevation of 5,154 feet. Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit is situated nearby to the hamlet Twin Lakes, as well as near Sherrelwood.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Adams County, Colorado, United States of America
Address: CO

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pecos Junction station and Cherokee Generating Station.

Pecos Junction station

Railway station

Photo: Xnatedawgx, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pecos Junction station is a Regional Transportation District commuter rail station on the B and G Lines near Denver, Colorado. The station opened on April 26, 2019, along with the rest of the G Line. Pecos Junction station is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit.

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 southeast of Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit.

Westminster station

Railway station

Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.

Westminster station is a Regional Transportation District commuter rail station on the B Line in Westminster, Colorado. The station opened on July 25, 2016, along with the B Line, and serves as its northern terminus. Westminster station is situated 2 miles west of Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Twin Lakes and Sherrelwood.

Twin Lakes

Hamlet

Twin Lakes is a census-designated place in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States]. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Sherrelwood

Hamlet

Sherrelwood 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–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sherrelwood is situated 1½ miles northwest of Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit.

Berkley

Hamlet

Berkley is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in southwestern Adams County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Berkley is situated 2 miles southwest of Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit.

Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.81832° or 39° 49′ 6″ north

Longitude

-104.98887° or 104° 59′ 20″ west

Elevation

5,154 feet (1,571 metres)

Open location code

85FQR296+8F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369174547

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5417614

Wikidata ID

Q49405454

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In Other Languages

“Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Adams County)”
Cebuano: “Colorado-Wyoming Improvement Company Pit”

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