The City of Wheat Ridge is a house rule municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Wheat Ridge is located rudely west of Denver and is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Wheat Ridge Municipal Center is nearly 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. The city had a population of 30,166 as of the 2010 Census.

Although Wheat Ridge is a relatively teenage incorporated city, it has a chronicles based upon agriculture and the community’s location along regional travel routes. It grew from a popular rest stop for travelers during the Gold Rush of the late 1850s to an agricultural and suburban community known as the “Carnation City” in the mid 1900s. As the residential areas of unincorporated Jefferson County grew to pay for housing to the Denver workforce during the 1950s, the major transportation corridors extending from Denver developed with advertisement services. During that era, the formation of numerous assist and flare protection districts provided these unincorporated areas when urban services. Eventually, due to the increasing annexation pressure from manageable municipalities, Wheat Ridge incorporated in 1969.

Wheat Ridge is located at 39°45′58″N 105°04′38″W / 39.76611°N 105.07722°W / 39.76611; -105.07722 (39.7660980, -105.0772063) at an height above sea level of 5,459 feet (1,664 m). Located at the junction of Interstate 70 and Colorado State Highway 391 in central Colorado, the city is suddenly west of Denver and 66 miles (106 km) north-northwest of Colorado Springs.

Wheat Ridge is located in the Colorado Piedmont upon the western edge of the Great Plains just east of the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Clear Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River, flows east subsequently northeast through the city. Lena Gulch, a tributary of Clear Creek, flows northeast through the southwest part of the city.