Denver, Colorado
Denver, located in the high plains at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, is the commercial capital of the Rocky Mountain Region. The town St. Charles was renamed as Denver City after James W. Denver, governor of the Kansas Territory, and was incorporated in 1861. Colorado attained statehood in 1876 and Denver was named as the state capital. It has an area of 153 square miles (2000). Numerous small lakes, reservoirs, grace the metropolitan area due to the South Platte River, which runs through the city. Denver is elevated at 5,332 feet above sea level, and hence has low humidity, which makes the climate semiarid and relatively mild.
During the year 1999, the number of households in Denver with income of less than $10,000 was 24,286 and households with income of $200,000 or more were 6,036. The population of Denver in the year 2000 was 2,109,282 with a density of 3,616.7 people per square mile. The population comprised of Whites, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino, and others. The total number of births in 2003 in Denver County was 10,365, and the total number of deaths was 4,321, out of which 72 were infants under the age of 1 year. The 2002 FBI Crime Index was 32,132.