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About Littleton, Colorado

Littleton, Colorado
Home rule municipality^[1]
Downtown Littleton, 2015.
Location of the City of Littleton in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties, Colorado.
Littleton Location of the City of Littleton in the United States.
Coordinates: 39°35′59″N 105°0′39″W / 39.59972°N 105.01083°W / 39.59972; -105.01083
Country	United States
State	Colorado
Counties^[2]	Arapahoe County Douglas County Jefferson County
City^[1]	Littleton
Settled	1862
Incorporated	March 13, 1890^[4]
Named for	Richard Little
Government
• Type	Council–manager government
• Mayor	Kyle Schlachter ^[5]
Area ^[6]
• Total	13.75 sq mi (35.63 km²)
• Land	12.62 sq mi (32.69 km²)
• Water	1.13 sq mi (2.93 km²)
Elevation ^[7]	5,351 ft (1,631 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	45,652 ^[3]
• Density	3,320.15/sq mi (1,281.92/km²)
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP codes^[8]	80120-80130, 80160-80163 (PO Boxes), 80165, 80166
Area code(s)	Both 303 and 720
FIPS code	08-45255
GNIS feature ID	0169446
Highways	US 85, SH 75, SH 88, SH 470
Website	littletongov.org

Littleton
is a home rule municipality city located in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties, Colorado, United States. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.^[10]^[11] The city population was 45,652 at the 2020 United States Census, ranking as the 20th most populous municipality in the State of Colorado.

About Littleton, Colorado

The city of Littleton's history dates back to the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which brought gold seekers, but merchants and farmers to the community. Richard Sullivan Little was an engineer from New Hampshire who made his way out West to work on irrigation systems. Little soon decided to settle in the area at present day Littleton and brought his wife Angeline out from the East in 1862. The Littles, and 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. Littleton grew significantly throughout the 1950s and 1960s due to its proximity to Martin Marietta facilities, which produced the Titan rocket and other aerospace products. Littleton twinned with Bega, Australia in 1961 as one of the earliest sister cities. Littleton became widely known in 1999 when the Columbine High School massacre occurred, where two of the school's students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher, injured 23 others and then killed themselves. News media wrongly reported that the incident happened in the city, because the school's ZIP code is primarily associated with Littleton. The school is located in adjacent Columbine, an unincorporated community, which is not a place name accepted by the U.S. Postal Service; by default, locations in ZIP code 80123 use "Littleton" in their mailing addresses. Columbine High School is in the Jefferson County school system and is not one of the Littleton Public Schools.