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Thornton

Thornton is a city of about 144,000 in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the western U.S. state of . The city lies northwest of in Adams and Weld counties.
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  • Type: City with 139,000 residents
  • Description: city in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Thornton, CO” and “Thornton, Colorado”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Water World and Thornton High School.

Water park
Photo: Jojodalton, Public domain.
is a water park that is owned and operated by the Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District and located in , roughly 10 miles north of downtown Denver, Colorado.

School
is a high school located in Thornton, Colorado that serves nearly 2,000 students and has approximately 130 staff members.

Church
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Federal Heights and Sherrelwood.

Town
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.
The City of is a home rule city located in western , , United States. The city population was 14,382 at the 2020 United States census, a +25.42% increase since the 2010 United States census.

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.

Thornton

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)
United Nations Location Code
US THT
Open location code
85FQV297+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151412991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5441492
Wiki­data ID
Q579761
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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: “Thornton”
  • 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”
  • 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 (Colorado)”
  • 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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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 Wikivoyage page “Thornton”. Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.