Northwestern Engineering Company Pit
Northwestern Engineering Company Pit is a quarry in Adams, Colorado and has an elevation of 5,148 feet. Northwestern Engineering Company Pit is situated nearby to the hamlet Sherrelwood, as well as near Twin Lakes.- 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 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 northeast of Northwestern Engineering 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 2 miles south of Northwestern Engineering Company Pit.
Thornton High School
School
Thornton High School is a high school located in Thornton, Colorado that serves nearly 2,000 students and has approximately 130 staff members. Thornton High School is situated 2 miles north of Northwestern Engineering Company Pit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherrelwood and Twin Lakes.
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 west of Northwestern Engineering Company Pit.
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. Twin Lakes is situated 2 miles southwest of Northwestern Engineering Company Pit.
Thornton
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thornton is a city of about 144,000 in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the western U.S. state of Colorado. The city lies northwest of Denver in Adams and Weld counties.
Northwestern Engineering Company Pit
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.83638° or 39° 50′ 11″ northLongitude
-104.97165° or 104° 58′ 18″ westElevation
5,148 feet (1,569 metres)Open location code
85FQR2PH+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 369174539OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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