Kilgore-Atchinson Pit
Kilgore-Atchinson Pit is a quarry in Adams, Colorado and has an elevation of 5,125 feet. Kilgore-Atchinson Pit is situated nearby to the village Derby, as well as near the hamlet Dupont.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Adams County, Colorado, United States of America
- Address: CO
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Original Thornton/88th station and 88 Drive-In.
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 northwest of Kilgore-Atchinson Pit.
88 Drive-In
Movie theater
Photo: Xnatedawgx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
88 Drive-In is a drive-in theater in the Irondale neighborhood of Commerce City, a suburb of Denver. 88 Drive-In is situated 2½ miles northeast of Kilgore-Atchinson Pit.
Cherokee Generating Station
Power station
Cherokee Generating Station is a natural gas-fired power plant in Adams County, 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 2½ miles southwest of Kilgore-Atchinson Pit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Derby and Dupont.
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–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Dupont
Hamlet
Dupont is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Adams County, Colorado, United States. The Dupont Post Office has the ZIP Code 80024. A post office called Dupont has been in operation since 1926.
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 south of Kilgore-Atchinson Pit.
Kilgore-Atchinson Pit
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.83332° or 39° 49′ 60″ northLongitude
-104.93276° or 104° 55′ 58″ westElevation
5,125 feet (1,562 metres)Open location code
85FQR3M8+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 369174537OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
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- Cebuano: “Kilgore-Atchinson Pit”
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