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Welby

Welby is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by , , . The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 14,800 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Welby, CO” and “Welby, Colorado”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Original Thornton/88th station and Cherokee Generating Station.

Railway station
is a station on the N Line of the Denver RTD commuter rail system in . 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.

Power station
is a natural gas-fired power plant in , about 5 miles north of downtown . 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. is situated 2 miles south of Welby.

School
is a high school located in that serves nearly 2,000 students and has approximately 130 staff members. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Welby.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Derby and Sherrelwood.

Village
Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0.
is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by , , . The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. is situated 2 miles east of Welby.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by , , United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. is situated 2½ miles west of Welby.

Town
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.
is a home rule city located in , United States. The city population was 62,418 at the 2020 United States census, a 35.95% increase since the 2010 United States census. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Welby.

Welby

Latitude
39.83822° or 39° 50′ 18″ north
Longitude
-104.95927° or 104° 57′ 33″ west
Population
14,800
Elevation
5,135 feet (1,565 metres)
Open location code
85FQR2QR+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151475689
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5443482
Wiki­data ID
Q2161532
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Welby” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Welby”
  • Bavarian: “Welby, Colorado”
  • Bavarian: “Welby”
  • Catalan: “Welby”
  • Cebuano: “Welby”
  • Chechen: “Велби”
  • Chinese: “Welby”
  • Chinese: “韋爾比”
  • Dutch: “Welby”
  • French: “Welby”
  • German: “Welby”
  • Gilaki: “ولبی (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “ولبی”
  • Hungarian: “Welby”
  • Irish: “Welby”
  • Italian: “Welby”
  • Ladin: “Welby”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Welby”
  • Newari: “वेलबाइ (कोलोर्याडो)”
  • Newari: “वेलबाइ, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Persian: “ولبی، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “ولبی”
  • Polish: “Welby”
  • Portuguese: “Welby”
  • Serbian: “Велби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Welby, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Welby”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولبی، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولبی”
  • Spanish: “Welby (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Welby”
  • Swedish: “Welby, Colorado”
  • Swedish: “Welby”
  • Tatar: “Велби”
  • Ukrainian: “Велбі”
  • Volapük: “Welby”
  • Welsh: “Welby”

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Highlights include Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church and Steele Athletics.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Welby”. Photo: mark gallagher, CC BY 2.0.