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Denver is the capital and most populous city of Colorado, located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Rocky Mountains, with a population of 715,522 at the 2020 census making it the 19th-largest U.S. city and fifth-most populous state capital. Founded in 1858 at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River during the Gold Rush era by land speculators William Larimer and Jonathan Cox, who named it after Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver, the city earned the nickname "Mile High City" because its elevation is exactly one mile (5,280 feet) above sea level. The ten-county Denver metropolitan area has 3.1 million residents, making it the 19th-largest metro area in the country and the economic and cultural center of the Front Range Urban Corridor. As the most populous metropolitan area within a 560-mile radius, Denver serves as a major cultural hub featuring institutions like the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver Art Museum, and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, while also hosting professional sports teams across five leagues and eight Fortune 500 company headquarters. The city grew from its prospecting origins to become the principal commercial and transportation hub for the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West, with the 105th meridian west - which defines the Mountain Time Zone - passing directly through Denver Union Station. Longmont is a home rule city in Boulder and Weld counties, Colorado, with a 2020 population of 98,885 located northeast of Boulder and named after the visible Longs Peak. Founded in 1871 as Chicago-Colorado Colony by Chicago investors led by Robert Collyer, Longmont became Boulder County's first planned community with a grid street layout and incorporated as a town on November 15, 1885, flourishing after the Colorado Central Railroad arrived in 1877. The city's economy evolved from agriculture and early industries like Longmont Foods turkey processing (operating 1950-2011) to high-tech manufacturing, including IBM's campus in the 1960s and later companies like Seagate and GE Energy. Longmont is notable for hosting Colorado's first library founded by Elizabeth Rowell Thompson in 1871 and a Carnegie library that operated from 1913 to 1972, plus pioneering the state's first New Urbanist development, Prospect New Town, in the mid-1990s. In 2013, Longmont launched NextLight, a municipal fiber-optic gigabit network, and its downtown Main Street experienced significant revival from the 1990s onward after languishing in the 1980s. Fort Lupton is a statutory city in southern Weld County, Colorado, located within the Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area and Front Range Urban Corridor, with a population of 7,955 as of the 2020 census. Named after Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton, who established a trading post on Adobe Creek in 1838, the city was incorporated on January 15, 1890, following Colorado's statehood in 1876 and the opening of its post office in 1869. The reconstructed Fort Lupton trading post, built with original adobe bricks at South Platte Valley Historical Park, commemorates the region's early settlement history. Situated at an elevation of 4,905 feet in coordinates 40.0847°N 104.8130°W, the city covers 7,808 acres with a median resident age of 34.8 years and predominantly urban characteristics. The 2020 census recorded 2,620 households with 51.9% married-couple families, reflecting a stable residential community in Colorado's northern Front Range region.