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Arapahoe County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 572,003, making it the third-most populous county in Colorado. The county seat is Littleton, and the most populous city is Aurora. The county was named for the Arapaho Native American tribe who once lived in the region. Arapahoe County is part of the DenverAurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Arapahoe County calls itself “Colorado’s First County” since its origins predate the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. On August 25, 1855, the Kansas Territorial Legislature created a huge Arapahoe County to govern the entire western portion of the Territory of Kansas. The county was named for the Arapaho Nation who lived in the region. In July 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte River in Arapahoe County
(in present day Englewood). This discovery precipitated the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so they voted to form their own Territory of Jefferson on October 24, 1859. The following month, the Jefferson Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties for the new territory, including a smaller Arapahoe County. Denver City served as the county seat of Arapahoe County. The Jefferson Territory never received federal sanction, and instead on February 28, 1861, U.S. President James Buchanan signed an act organizing the Territory of Colorado. On November 1, 1861, the Colorado General Assembly organized the 17 original counties of Colorado, including a new Arapahoe County. Arapahoe County originally stretched from the line of present-day Sheridan Boulevard 160 miles (258 kilometers) east to the Kansas border, and from the line of present-day County Line Road 30 miles (48 kilometers) north to the
Parallel 40° North (168th Avenue). Denver City served as the county seat of Arapahoe County until 1902. In 1901, the Colorado General Assembly voted to split Arapahoe County into three parts: a new consolidated City and County of Denver, a new Adams County, and the remainder of the Arapahoe County to be renamed South Arapahoe County. A ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, subsequent
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legislation, and a referendum delayed the reorganization until November 15, 1902. Governor James Bradley Orman designated Littleton as the temporary county seat of South Arapahoe County. On April 11, 1903, the Colorado General Assembly changed the name of South Arapahoe County back to Arapahoe County. On November 8, 1904, Arapahoe County voters chose Littleton over Englewood by a vote of 1310 to 829 to be the permanent county seat.
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Littleton is a Home Rule Municipality as contained in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is a suburb of the DenverAurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the county seat of Arapahoe County and the 20th most populous city in the state of Colorado. The population was 41,737 at the 2010 census.
Sullivan Little was an engineer from New Hampshire that made his way out west to work on irrigation systems. Little quickly fell in love with the area that is present day Littleton and brought his wife Angeline out from the East in 1862. The Littles, along with many neighbors, built the Rough and Ready Flour Mill in 1867, which provided a solid economic base in the community. By 1890, the community had grown to 245 people and the residents voted to incorporate the Town of Littleton.
The city of Littleton’s history dates back to the 1859 Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, which brought not only gold seekers, but merchants and farmers to the community. Richard The Colorado Center for
the Blind, a skills training program for blind teenagers and adults operated by the National Federation of the Blind, is located in Littleton. Denver Seminary is in Littleton. Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies’ “Desert Tortoise,” a competitor in the DARPA Grand Challenge, is based in Littleton. The city is also the site of the grave of Alferd Packer, an American prospector and the only convicted cannibal in the United States. Littleton became widely known in 1999 when the Columbine High School massacre occurred at nearby Columbine High School, which the news media erroneously reported as being located in the city. The school is actually located in Columbine, an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, yet in a ZIP code associated primarily with Littleton. The school is in the Jefferson County school system and is not one of World Views Guides | 2014
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the Littleton Public Schools. The City of Aurora (/əˈrɔərə/, /əˈrɔrə/) is a Home Rule Municipality in the State of Colorado, spanning Arapahoe and Adams counties, with the extreme southeastern portion of the city extending into Douglas County. Aurora is one of the principal cities of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Denver). The city’s population was 325,078 in the 2010 Census, which makes it the third most populous city in the state of Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the United States. Denver and Aurora are the principal cities of the Denver Metropolitan Area, which in 2012 had an estimated population of 2,645,209 (the 21st most populous MSA in the U.S.). However, Denver and Aurora combined make up less than half of the Denver Metro Area’s population and Aurora has approximately half the population of Denver. The estimated population of Metropolitan Denver was 3,214,218 in 2012 (16th most populous CSA).
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Buckley Air Force Base (IATA: BFK, ICAO: KBKF, FAA LID: BKF) is a United States Air Force base in Aurora, Colorado, that was established by the U.S. Army in 1943. The base was named in honor of World War I Army pilot 1LT John Harold Buckley. 1. Overview Buckley Air Force Base is an Air Force Space Command base that serves more than 92,000 active duty, National Guard, Reserve and retired personnel throughout the Front Range community. Buckley AFB defends America through its air operations, spacebased missile warning capabilities, space surveillance operations, space communications operations and support functions. 1.
World War II
During the early years of World War II the city of Denver purchased a 5,740acre (23 km2) parcel of land several miles east of the city and donated
it to the Department of the Army. The site was named Buckley Field after 1st Lt. John Harold Buckley, a Longmont, Colorado, native, who was killed while on a combat strafing mission behind enemy lines in France on September 17, 1918.
service operations, became Naval Air Station Denver (NAS Denver). In April 1960, NAS Denver was transferred from the U.S. Navy to the U.S. Air Force and renamed Buckley Air National Guard Base, becoming the first stand alone Guard base in the Air Force. Under the command of the 336th AAF Base Unit (Army Air Forces Technical 2. The Cold War years Training Command), With WWII over, Buckley military role construction on this air Field’s base began in early 1942, quickly diminished, and in and that resulted in the 1946 it became an auxiliary construction of over 700 field of the nearby Lowry buildings. On 1 July Air Force Base. Lowry in 1942, the U.S. Army Air turn transferred control of Corps Technical Training the base to the Colorado School opened there. It Air National Guard that consisted of bombardier same year. Air National and armorer training for Guard ownership lasted air crewmen on the B-17 less than one year, and then Flying Fortress and B-24 in 1947 the Department of Liberator bomber, also an the Navy took charge of Arctic Training School the base and renamed it for Air crew headed for Naval Air Station Denver. the Alaskan Wing of the The renamed base was Air Transport Command. the location of Naval During WWII, Buckley Air Reserve aviation Field also trained over squadrons, as well as for 50,000 airmen in initial veterans and their families waiting to return to civilian basic training. In February 1947, the base, life. Thousands of veterans always the center of multi- returned to civilian life
here over the next four years, while Naval Air Reservists concurrently conducted operational training. The Navy remained here for 12 years before decommissioning its base on June 30, 1959, and transferring it back to the U.S. Air Force (which had not existed before 1947), which renamed the facility Buckley Air Force Base. However, the Naval Reserve remained at Buckley as tenant activity known as Naval Air Reserve Center Denver, the predecessor of the present day Navy Operational Support Center Denver. Buckley Field once again became the Buckley Air National Guard Base on April 18, 1960. At the same time, it became the first stand-alone Air National Guard base in the country. The Colorado Air National Guard remained in control of Buckley Field for the next 40 years, operating it as a fighter base.
Tactical Fighter Squadron for events as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the USS Pueblo crisis, and the Vietnam War.
did not see any decrease in its responsibilities. This Fighter Wing deployed from Buckley Field numerous times during the decade of the 1990s to take part in various military operations such as Operation Desert Storm, Operation Northern Watch, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the growth of Aurora, Denver’s eastern neighbor, edged toward Buckley Field. The land of the air base was annexed to Aurora in 1965 and 1966; however, the installation is In October 2000, the US Government property Buckley Air National under Federal jurisdiction. Guard base was transferred Other tenant units at to U.S. Air Force control, Buckley Field during the and it was renamed Cold War era included the: Buckley Air Force Base. • 154th Tactical Air Support Group, an Air National Guard (ANG) unit trained to provide close air support for United States Army ground operations. The 154th Group had its own truck-mounted tactical radar units and radar-control vans, but no aircraft were assigned to the Group. (circa 1970 through 1989) 3.
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During the Cold War Although the Cold War era, the Colorado Air ended in the early 1990s, the National Guard mobilized 120th Tactical Fighter Wing the Buckley-based 120th
Since the return of Buckley Field to the Air Force in 2000, the air base has seen an unprecedented amount of new construction and modernization. New enlisted airmen’s dormitories, the commissary, the base exchange, and the fitness center have all been completed, augmented by the completion of family housing units - the first ones ever constructed at Buckley Field.
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The Aurora Sentinel is the city’s primary newspaper, published weekly. Given Aurora’s proximity to Denver, local readers can also purchase the daily print edition of the The Denver Post. Other newspapers published in Aurora include: • Buckley Guardian, Buckley Air Force Base news Denver Urban Spectrum, African American news, monthly • El Hispano, Spanish language newspaper, weekly
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1. Radio Aurora is in the Denver-Boulder radio market. Local listeners can also receive the signal of radio stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Centennial, Colorado Springs, Greenwood Village, Longmont, and Loveland. The following is a list of radio stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to Aurora. 1. Frequency 560 670 710 810 990 1090 1220 1430 1650
Callsign KLZ KLTT KNUS KLVZ KRKS KMXA KLDC KEZW KBJD
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Talk Religious News/Talk Religious Religious Regional Mexican Urban Gospel Adult Standards/MOR Spanish Religious
City of License Denver, Colorado Commerce City, Colorado Denver, Colorado Brighton, Colorado Denver, Colorado
Aurora, Colorado Denver, Colorado
Aurora, Colorado Denver, Colorado
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Religious Religious Rhythmic Adult Contemporary Alternative Rock
Notes Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Denver, Colorado Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Denver, Colorado Broadcasts from Aurora
FM City of License Loveland, Colorado Lafayette, Colorado Strasburg, Colorado Bennett, Colorado
Notes Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora Broadcasts from Aurora
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KDEN-TV
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Broadcasts from studios in Aurora
KPXC-TV
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Chick-Fil-A 950 Cpl Max Donahue Ln Littleton (303)470-1300 Chili’s Grill & Bar 8450 W Cross Dr Littleton (303)973-5863 Chili’s Grill & Bar 8454 S Kipling Pkwy Littleton (303)904-3800 Fun City 9670 W Coal Mine Ave Littleton (303)972-4344 Gunther Toody’s Diner 8266 W Bowles Ave Littleton (303)932-1957 Hacienda Colorado 5056 S Wadsworth Way Littleton (303)932-0272 Hurricane Grill & Wing 8025 W Bowles Ave Littleton (303)573-8000 IHOP Restaurant 7733 W Long Dr Littleton (303)904-9609 Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon 4817 S Wadsworth Way Littleton (303)9321718 Marie Callender’s 51 W Dry Creek Ct Littleton (303)795-8833 World Views Guides
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Mc Donald’s 10177 W Progress Ave Littleton (303)933-5924 Mcdonald Hyundai 6500 S Broadway Littleton (303)376-4731 Outback Steakhouse 8601 W Cross Dr Littleton (303)932-0315
Raccoon Creek Golf Course 7301 W Bowles Ave Littleton (303)9734653 Red Lobster 5656 S Wadsworth Blvd Littleton (303)978-1416 Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 7708 W Long D r Littleton (303)904-2055
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