Engineer Lake
Engineer Lake is in Adams, Colorado. Engineer Lake is situated nearby to the railway station Commerce City & 72nd, as well as near the police station Adams County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division.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 north of Engineer Lake.
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 Engineer Lake.
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. Commerce City is situated 1½ miles southeast of Engineer Lake.
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 Engineer Lake.
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 east of Engineer Lake.
Engineer Lake
- Type: Body of water
- Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.82883° or 39° 49′ 44″ northLongitude
-104.94673° or 104° 56′ 48″ westOpen location code
85FQR3H3+G8OpenStreetMap ID
way 44669219OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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