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Glendale is a home rule city in Arapahoe County that forms an enclave completely surrounded by the City and County of Denver, making it an exclave of Arapahoe County.

The community was settled in 1859 along the Cherokee Trail and Smoky Hill Trail past the Four Mile House stage stop, and it was incorporated on May 19, 1952, in part to resist annexation by Denver.

The name Glendale came from the Glendale Grange, organized in December 1896, and was cemented by William Harold Baumert's Glendale Farm Dairy, founded in 1902.

With 4,613 residents packed into just 0.571 square miles at the 2020 census, Glendale is the most densely populated municipality in Colorado, at about 8,117 people per square mile.

The 2020 census counted 2,806 households and 3,106 housing units in Glendale, and more than 80% of residents are renters, many in apartment buildings constructed in the 1970s.

Glendale's median age at the 2020 census was just 30.2 years, reflecting its young, largely single population.

The city's motto is "The Heartbeat of Metro Denver."

Since 2005, Glendale's fire and emergency medical services have been provided by the Denver Fire Department and Denver Paramedics under contract, while the city keeps its own police department.

Glendale's Infinity Park opened the first municipal rugby stadium in the United States in 2007; the 4,000-seat stadium is home to the Colorado Raptors and hosted the Churchill Cup in 2009 and 2010.

Four Mile Historic Park, just outside the city limits in Denver, preserves the 1859 Four Mile House, the oldest house in the Denver metropolitan area and a former Cherokee Trail stage stop.