Derby, Colorado

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|image_skyline = Lower Derby Lake (15428719432).jpg

|image_alt = The leaves are beginning to change color around Lower Derby Lake, the largest lake on Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

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|postal_code = Commerce City 80022

|area_codes = 303 & 720

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Derby is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Derby CDP was 8,407 at the United States Census 2020. The Commerce City post office (Zip code 80022) serves the area.

History

The Derby post office was established in 1910 and remained in operation until 1963.{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |title=Post offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=25 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120236/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |archivedate=6 March 2016 }} The community is named after Derby, England.{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=23|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=17}}

Geography

The Derby CDP has an area of {{convert|4.570|km2|acres|disp=flip}}, including {{convert|0.038|km2|acres|disp=flip}} of water.

Demographics

The United States Census Bureau initially defined the {{nowrap|Derby CDP}} for the {{nowrap|1950 United States census.}}

{{Historical populations

|title = Derby CDP, Colorado

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|1950| 2,840

|1960|10,124

|1970|10,206

|1980| 8,578

|1990| 6,043

|2000| 6,423

|2010| 7,685

|2020|8407

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Education

Derby is in Adams County School District 14.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st08_co/schooldistrict_maps/c08001_adams/DC20SD_C08001.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Adams County, CO|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|page=1 (PDF p. 2/3)|accessdate=2024-11-05}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st08_co/schooldistrict_maps/c08001_adams/DC20SD_C08001_SD2MS.txt Text list] The district's comprehensive high school is Adams City High School.

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See also

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