Littleton is a city located in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 40,340. It is the county seat of Arapahoe CountyGR6. Portions of the city are also in Jefferson County and Douglas County.
Littleton became widely known in 1999 when the Columbine High School massacre occurred at nearby Columbine High School, which the media reported as being located in the city. The school is actually in unincorporated Jefferson County and is closer to Denver, but is in a ZIP code associated with Littleton.
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.
In the DARPA Grand Challenge, a robot race in the Mojave Desert Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies' "Desert Tortoise" hometown was Littleton.
The city is also the site of the grave of Alferd Packer, one of two people ever imprisoned in the United States for cannibalism.
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