Henderson, Colorado

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Henderson, Colorado
Unincorporated community
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Henderson's Post Office.
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Henderson
Location within the state of Colorado
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Henderson
Henderson (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°55′18″N104°52′06″W / 39.92167°N 104.86833°W / 39.92167; -104.86833
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado
Counties Adams [1]
Elevation
[1]
5,023 ft (1,531 m)
Population
 • Estimate 
(1954)
26
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP code [2]
80640

Henderson, formerly known as Henderson Island, is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Adams County, Colorado, United States. Henderson has the ZIP Code 80640. [2] Portions of the Henderson area have been annexed by Commerce City, Brighton, and Thornton.

Contents

A post office called Henderson has been in operation since 1894. [3] The community was named after John D. "Colonel Jack" Henderson. [4]

Geography

Henderson is located at 39°55′18″N104°52′06″W / 39.92167°N 104.86833°W / 39.92167; -104.86833 (39.921586,-104.868279). Henderson Island is today the site of the Adams County Regional Park and Fairgrounds.

Current Day

Along with a post office, a few buildings remain of old Henderson along Brighton Road north of 120th Avenue. The Henderson Congregation Church (now Henderson Community Church) which has been in existence for over 100 years, stands as one of the last remaining vestiges of historical Henderson.

Ralphie IV, one of the mascots of the University of Colorado Buffaloes is buried in Henderson. She retired after 10 years of service and lived out her retirement in the community. She died of liver failure on March 19, 2017. [5]

Education

School District 27J serves Henderson. [6]

Businesses

Henderson is currently home to MYR Group Inc. and MYR Group subsidiary Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. MYR Group is one of the leading electrical contractors in the United States and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the stock symbol MYRG. [7]

Lineage Logistics has a facility in Henderson. [8]

The Sinclair Oil Corporation had a trucking service terminal in Henderson. [9]

Notable person

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "ZIP Code Lookup". United States Postal Service. December 15, 2006. Archived from the original (JavaScript/HTML) on November 22, 2010. Retrieved December 15, 2006.
  3. ↑ "Post offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 26.
  5. ↑ "Ralphie IV". University of Colorado Athletics. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ Kirk, Alexander; Jordan Chavez (August 13, 2018). "No more Mondays for students in this Denver metro school district". 9 News. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ "MYR Group Inc. company profile" . MarketLine. April 21, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  8. ↑ Tyrone Richardson (July 24, 2014). "Construction starts on cold-storage facility in North Charleston". The Post and Courier . Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Trucking Services".
  10. ↑ Ruble, Eric (July 21, 2018). "Woman struck, killed by Cheyenne Frontier Days train near Henderson". KDVR . Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
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