Commerce City & 72nd

Commerce City & 72nd is a railway station in Adams, Colorado which is located on East 72nd Avenue. Commerce City & 72nd is situated nearby to the police station Adams County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division, as well as near Rampart Search and Rescue.

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 Regional Transportation District commuter rail station on the N Line in Thornton, Colorado. The station opened on September 21, 2020, along with the rest of the N Line. Original Thornton/88th station is situated 2½ miles north of Commerce City & 72nd.

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 Commerce City & 72nd.

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 southwest of Commerce City & 72nd.

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.

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 1½ miles northeast of Commerce City & 72nd.

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 northeast of Commerce City & 72nd.

Commerce City & 72nd

Type: Railway station
Address: 3838 East 72nd Avenue, Commerce City, CO 80022
Categories: station and transportation
Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.8263° or 39° 49′ 35″ north

Longitude

-104.94306° or 104° 56′ 35″ west

Inception

September 21st, 2020

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

RTD

Network

RTD

Open location code

85FQR3G4+GQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4459574190

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=station

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