Welcome to the information page for Littleton. Here you will find facts and history about Littleton.

Littleton is a Home Rule Municipality in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado and a suburb of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe Countyand the 17th most populous city in the State of Colorado. The population was 40,340 at the 2000 census.

Littleton became widely known in 1999 when the Columbine High School massacre occurred at nearby Columbine High School, which some in the news media erroneously reported as being located in the city. The school is actually in unincorporated Jefferson County, yet in a ZIP code associated primarily with Littleton (see Neighboring Communities... below). The school is one of the schools of the Jefferson County school system and not one of the Littleton Public Schools.

The Colorado Center for the Blind, a skills training program for blind teenagers and adults operated by the National Federation of the Blind, is located in Littleton. The Denver Theological Seminary is also in Littleton.

Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies' "Desert Tortoise," a competitor in the DARPA Grand Challenge, is based in Littleton.

The city is also the site of the grave of Alferd Packer, an American prospector. He is one of three people imprisoned in the United States for cannibalism.

Littleton is the home town of famed Hispanic business men, brothers, Sam J. Chavez, Jr. and Lloyd G. Chavez, Sr. find out more at wikipedia©

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