Henderson, Colorado

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| official_name = Henderson, Colorado

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| settlement_type = Unincorporated community

| image_skyline = Henderson, Colorado.JPG

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| image_caption = Henderson's Post Office.

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Colorado

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| subdivision_type = Country

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| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Colorado}}

| subdivision_type2 = Counties

| subdivision_name2 = Adams{{cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=US Board on Geographic Names|publisher=United States Geological Survey|date=2007-10-25}}

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| timezone = MST

| utc_offset = -7

| timezone_DST = MDT

| utc_offset_DST = -6

| coordinates = {{coord|39|55|18|N|104|52|06|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}

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| elevation_m = 1531

| postal_code_type = ZIP code{{cite web |date=December 15, 2006 |url=http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp |title=ZIP Code Lookup |format=JavaScript/HTML |publisher=United States Postal Service |accessdate=December 15, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122200027/http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp |archivedate=November 22, 2010 }}

| postal_code = 80640

| population_est = 26

| pop_est_as_of = 1954

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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. Portions of the Henderson area have been annexed by Commerce City, Brighton, and Thornton.

A post office called Henderson has been in operation since 1894.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO | title=Post offices | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=27 June 2016}} The community was named after John D. "Colonel Jack" Henderson.{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|year=1954|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=32|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=26}}