Matheson is a

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(CDP) and

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in and governed by

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, United States. The CDP is a part of the

Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The Denver re ...

. The Matheson post office has the ZIP Code 80830. At the

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, the population of the Matheson CDP was 79.

History

The town was named after Duncan Matheson, the original owner of the town site.

Geography

The Matheson CDP has an area of , all land.

Demographics

The

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defined the for the

In popular culture

The television series '' Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'' is set in Matheson, Colorado. However, the series portrays Matheson as much larger, a hub of high-tech industry, and located somewhere in the mountains west of

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