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The City of Lakewood is the home rule municipality that is the most populous municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 155,984 at the 2020 U.S. Census, making Lakewood the fifth most populous city in Colorado and the 167th most populous city in the United States. Lying shortly west of Denver, Lakewood is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The urban and suburban move on of the community known as Lakewood was started in 1889 by Charles Welch and W.A.H. Loveland, who platted a 13-block Place along Colfax Avenue west of Denver in eastern Jefferson County. Loveland, the former president of the Colorado Central Railroad, retired to the other community of Lakewood after many years of animate in Golden.

Until 1969, the area known as Lakewood had no municipal government, relying instead upon several water districts, several fire districts, and the management of Jefferson County. Lakewood was a community subsequently policing provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff, several volunteer-staffed fire districts, and some neighborhoods without street lights or sidewalks. However, the community had already existed for just about 80 years.