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Commerce City is a home rule city in Adams County, Colorado, located directly north of Denver.

The population of Commerce City was 62,418 at the 2020 United States census, a roughly 36 percent increase over 2010, making it the 18th most populous municipality in Colorado.

The 2020 census counted 19,145 households and 19,860 housing units in Commerce City.

The area's first permanent settlement was Henderson Island in the South Platte River, where John D. "Colonel Jack" Henderson built a ranch, trading post, and hotel in 1859 to sell provisions to gold seekers during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush; the site is now the Adams County Regional Park and Fairgrounds.

In July 1952, area residents voted 251 to 24 to incorporate as the Town of Commerce Town, a move driven in part by Denver's interest in annexing the area, and the town was incorporated on December 12, 1952.

After annexing part of the neighboring community of Derby in 1962 and more than quadrupling its population, the town became the City of Commerce City.

In April 2007, Commerce City voters chose by more than a two-to-one margin to keep the city's name rather than change it.

Commerce City contains the only entrance to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, described as the largest land-based urban wildlife refuge in the United States at about 27 square miles of lakes, wetlands, and grasslands.

Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer-specific stadium in Commerce City, is the home of the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer.

The city hosts the Suncor oil refinery, whose combined capacity of about 98,000 barrels per day makes it the largest refinery in the Rocky Mountain region.