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Denver is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina, situated on NC Highway 16 just west of Lake Norman, North Carolina's largest man-made lake.

Denver was known as 'Dry Pond' until 1873, a name taken from a small pond at the present corner of Highway 16 Business and Campground Road that dried up in the summer heat.

Local school headmaster D. Matt Thompson led the 1873 renaming to 'Denver,' after the capital of the then-territory of Colorado, hoping the grander name would attract a railroad spur.

Denver was actually an incorporated town from 1877 until 1971, when it lost its charter and returned to being an unincorporated community governed by Lincoln County.

The 2020 census counted 2,697 people in the Denver CDP, living in 1,137 households.

The much wider Denver ZIP code area, 28037, is far more populous than the CDP itself, with 13,030 residents counted in the 2000 census, reflecting the growth drawn by Lake Norman's shoreline.

The Battle of Cowan's Ford was fought on February 1, 1781, at the southern edge of present-day Denver, where North Carolina militia under Brigadier General William Lee Davidson tried to slow Cornwallis's crossing of the Catawba River; Davidson was killed in the fighting.

The Denver area was first settled around 1747-1770 by Scotch-Irish and German families, and in 1791 Daniel Asbury established Bethel Church here, described as the first Methodist church west of the Catawba River.

The Rock Springs Camp Meeting, a religious gathering tradition near Denver that traces its history to 1794, grew out of those early Methodist camp meetings.

Ironmaking was the area's first big industry: by 1810 Lincoln County had six iron furnaces, including the Vesuvius Furnace built in 1795 just west of present-day Denver.