Chaffee Park, Denver

A view towards downtown Denver from Zuni Park in the Chaffee Park Neighborhood.

Chaffee Park is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. It is in the area known to many as North Denver. It was platted in 1946 and mostly completed by 1949. It is named after Jerome B. Chaffee one of the founders of the City of Denver and Republican U.S. Senator from November 1876 to March 1879. Chaffee Park, along with the Regis neighborhood, are the north Denver neighborhoods that border the adjacent areas of Southeast Arvada and Twin Lakes.^[1] According to the Piton Foundation, in 2007, the population of the neighborhood was 4,401, and there were 1,554 housing units.^[2] In the year 2000, the racial breakdown was 31.44% White, 0.91% African American, 64.13% Hispanic or Latino, 0.91% Native American, and 0.94% Asian.^[1]

Boundaries

The neighborhood is bordered on the west by Federal Boulevard, on the north by the Adams County line, on the south by Interstate 70, and on the east by the railroad tracks. The northwestern part of the Chaffee Park neighborhood has a Denver mailing address; however, it is part of unincorporated Adams County and not part of the City and County of Denver.

Landmarks

Most of the neighborhood consists single-family housing units, with the exception of a few industrial buildings on the eastern edge of the neighborhood. Zuni Park is at the northern edge of the neighborhood, along the Adams County border. Here, 52nd Avenue is the northern border of the City and County of Denver. There is a city park named Chaffee Park, but it is in Sunnyside, the neighborhood south of the Chaffee Park Neighborhood. Interstate 70 serves as its southern border.

External links

Chaffee Park Community Facts

References

1 2 http://www.piton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=CommunityFacts.Summary&Neighborhood_ID=870
↑ Piton Foundation, Neighborhood summary. Chaffee Park, retrieved 2009-05-17

Coordinates: 39°47′15″N 105°00′57″W / 39.787432°N 105.015827°W / 39.787432; -105.015827

Neighborhoods of the City and County of Denver, Colorado

Central	Baker Capitol Hill Central Business District Cheesman Park City Park Congress Park City Park West Civic Center Country Club Lincoln Park North Capitol Hill Speer Union Station

North	Clayton Cole Elyria-Swansea Five Points Globeville North Park Hill South Park Hill Skyland Whittier

Northeast	Green Valley Ranch Montbello Northeast Park Hill Park Hill Stapleton

Northwest	Auraria Berkeley Chaffee Park East Highlands Highland Jefferson Park Regis Sloan Lake Sunnyside West Highlands

South	College View Hampden South Overland Platte Park Rosedale Southmoor Park South Platte University Hills University Park Washington Park Washington Park West Wellshire

Southeast	Goldsmith Hampden Hampden South Kennedy

East	Belcaro Cherry Creek Cory-Merrill East Colfax Hale Indian Creek Lowry Montclair Virginia Village Washington Virginia Vale Windsor

West	Athmar Park Barnum Barnum West Harvey Park Mar Lee Ruby Hill Sun Valley Valverde Villa Park West Colfax Westwood

Other	Alamo Placita Burns Brentwood Byers Chinatown Crestmoor Curtis Park Denver International Airport Gateway Golden Triangle Hampden Heights Hilltop LoDo Mayfair Parkfield University

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