Cortez, Colorado City of Cortez, Colorado Location in Montezuma County and the State of Colorado Location in Montezuma County and the State of Colorado State State of Colorado County Montezuma County Seat Website City of Cortez The City of Cortez is a Home Rule Municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The town/city population was 8,482 at the 2010 United States Census.
Entrance of Montezuma County Courthouse in Cortez.
It is a prominent stop for tourists, who stay there because of its central locale among encircling attractions, such as Mesa Verde National Park, Monument Valley, and the Four Corners.
There are many prehistoric sites in the Cortez area, listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties or both the state register and the National Register of Historic Places: They include large parks or centers, such as Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Hovenweep National Monument, and Mesa Verde National Park.
There following are trails or byways through the Cortez area: Old Spanish National Historic Trail A Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance airplane made an emergency eveningtime forced landing August 3, 1959, at the Cortez Municipal Airport. Major H.
Cortez is positioned at 37 20 57 N 108 34 45 W (37.349270, -108.579225). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.5 square miles (14 km2), of which 5.5 square miles (14 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.36%) is water.
Cortez is positioned in the region of the southwest known as the "High Desert", as are most of northwestern, western, southwestern, and southern Colorado.
View looking SE of Main Street in Cortez, with the cliff faces of the Mesa Verde visible in the distance.
Cortez is a small-town commercial center, competing with Durango in the east, and Farmington, New Mexico in the south, and draws trade from southeastern Utah, the extreme northeastern corner of Arizona, the Shiprock region of Northwestern New Mexico, and San Miquel, Dolores, Montezuma, and parts of La - Plata County in Colorado.
Its economy is based very heavily on tourism, both to close-by Mesa Verde National Park as well as to San Juan National Forest, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the region (including Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, as well as the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Navajo Indian Reservations).
Mesa Verde National Park, featuring Ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings, is situated southeast of Cortez.
Cortez has a cold and continental semi-arid climate with hot summer days and cold winter evenings, the latter a result of its elevation.
Climate data for Cortez, Colorado (1981 2010 normals) There were 3,885 housing units at an average density of 637.6 per square mile (246.3/km ).
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Cortez Public Schools are part of the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1.
The precinct has one preschool, five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.
Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 Pre-School, Kemper Elementary School, Lewis-Arriola Elementary School, Manaugh Elementary School, Mesa Elementary Schools, Pleasant View Elementary School, Cortez Middle School and Montezuma-Cortez High School are positioned in Cortez.
Cortez Municipal Airport serves Cortez.
Ebbert, prominent rancher and politician, represented Cortez in the Colorado General Assembly in early 20th century.
Michael Milenski, Cortez native who was founder and general director of Long Beach Opera.
United States portal United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Active Colorado Municipalities".
State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs.
The City of Cortez.
Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin.
National Register of Historic Places in Montezuma County, Colorado American Dreams, Inc.
National & State Registers.
Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.
"2009 Cortez Aviation Heritage Celebration".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1".
Cortez Fire Protection District City of Cortez website CDOT map of the City of Cortez Municipalities and communities of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States State of Colorado
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