Thornton
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.
- Type: City with 139,000 residents
- Description: city in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Thornton (Colorado)”, “Thornton, CO”, and “Thornton, Colorado”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Water World and Thornton High School.
Water World
Water park
Photo: Jojodalton, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Federal Heights and Sherrelwood.
Thornton
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, and locality
- Location: Adams, Denver Area, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.8696° or 39° 52′ 10″ north
Longitude
-104.9852° or 104° 59′ 7″ west
Population
139,000
Elevation
5,351 feet (1,631 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US THT
Open location code
85FQV297+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thornton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثورنتون”
- Basque: “Thornton”
- Belarusian: “Торнтан”
- Bulgarian: “Торнтън”
- Catalan: “Thornton”
- Cebuano: “Thornton”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆرنتۆن”
- Chechen: “Торнтон”
- Chinese: “桑頓”
- Czech: “Thornton”
- Danish: “Thornton”
- Dutch: “Thornton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثورنتون”
- Esperanto: “Thornton”
- Finnish: “Thornton”
- French: “Thornton”
- German: “Thornton”
- Gilaki: “تؤرنتن”
- Haitian: “Thornton, Kolorado”
- Haitian: “Thornton”
- Hebrew: “ת’ורנטון”
- Hebrew: “תורנטון”
- Hungarian: “Thornton”
- Irish: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Irish: “Thornton”
- Italian: “Thornton”
- Japanese: “ソーントン”
- Kazakh: “Сортон”
- Kirghiz: “Сортон”
- Korean: “손턴”
- Ladin: “Thornton”
- Latvian: “Torntona”
- Mazanderani: “سورنتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thornton”
- Newari: “थर्नटन, कोलोर्याडो”
- Newari: “थर्नटन”
- Northern Frisian: “Thornton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thornton”
- Norwegian: “Thornton”
- Ossetian: “Торнтон”
- Persian: “سورنتون، کلرادو”
- Persian: “سورنتون”
- Polish: “Thornton”
- Portuguese: “Thornton”
- Russian: “Торнтон”
- Serbian: “Торнтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thornton”
- Slovak: “Thornton”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورنتون، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورنتون”
- Spanish: “Thornton”
- Swahili: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Swahili: “Thornton”
- Swedish: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Swedish: “Thornton”
- Tagalog: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Tagalog: “Thornton”
- Talysh: “Tornton”
- Tatar: “Торнтон (Колорадо)”
- Tatar: “Торнтон”
- Turkish: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Turkish: “Thornton”
- Ukrainian: “Торнтон”
- Urdu: “تھورن ٹن، کولوراڈو”
- Urdu: “تھورن ٹن”
- Uzbek: “Thornton”
- Venetian: “Thornton”
- Vietnamese: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Vietnamese: “Thornton”
- Volapük: “Thornton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thornton, Colorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thornton”
- Welsh: “Thornton, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Thornton”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Lambertson Lakes and Original Thornton.
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