Garcia, Colorado

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Garcia, Colorado
Unincorporated community
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Entering Garcia from New Mexico.
Garcia, Colorado
Coordinates: 37°00′15″N105°32′14″W / 37.00417°N 105.53722°W / 37.00417; -105.53722
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Colorado.svg Colorado
Counties Costilla [1]
Elevation
[1]
7,730 ft (2,360 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP Code [2]
81152
Area code 719
GNIS feature 204793 [1]

Garcia is an unincorporated community located in Costilla County, Colorado, United States. The San Luis post office (Zip Code 81152) serves Garcia postal addresses. [2]

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History

Originally settled in 1849 as La Plaza de los Manzanares, [3] Garcia rivals San Luis as the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Colorado. [4] A post office called Garcia was established in 1915. [5] The community was named for the local Garcia family. [6]

The historically significant, but long-unused, adobe Garcia School [7] [8] is being considered for renovation and return to school use by the Centennial School District. [9] [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garcia, Colorado
  2. 1 2 "Look Up a ZIP Code". United States Postal Service . Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  3. ↑ Tushar, Olibama López (2007). The people of El Valle : a history of the Spanish settlers in the San Luis Valley (4th ed.). Pueblo, Colo.: El Escritorio. ISBN   978-0-9628974-6-7. OCLC   310960699.
  4. ↑ Rosso, Mike (November 1, 2010). "Lines in the sand". Colorado Central Magazine. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Post offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 23.
  7. ↑ "Garcia School". coloradopreservation.org. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Garcia School | History Colorado". www.historycolorado.org. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  9. ↑ Breunlin, Erica (March 4, 2024). "1800s-era schoolhouse in tiny Colorado town will reopen to students after sitting vacant for decades". The Colorado Sun. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  10. ↑ CBS Colorado, February 9, 2023, retrieved March 6, 2024
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