Welby Reservoir
Welby Reservoir is a reservoir in Adams, Colorado. Welby Reservoir is situated nearby to the locality Sand Creek Junction, as well as near Derby.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cherokee Generating Station and Riverside Cemetery.
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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton and Commerce City.
Thornton
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Sherrelwood
Hamlet
Sherrelwood 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–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Welby Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Category: body of water
- Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.8209° or 39° 49′ 15″ northLongitude
-104.9534° or 104° 57′ 12″ westOpen location code
85FQR2CW+9MOpenStreetMap ID
way 627859983OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoir
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