Montezuma County is the southwesternmost of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,849. The county seat is Cortez.
Dolores County is the seventh-least populous of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,326. The county seat is Dove Creek.
Dove Creek is a Statutory Town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Dolores County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 635 at the 2020 United States Census. The community takes its name from the nearby Dove Creek. Dove Creek is the self-proclaimed Pinto Bean Capital of the World.
Cortez is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States Census.
The Town of Mancos is a Statutory Town located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,336 at the 2010 United States Census.
Cortez Municipal Airport is three miles southwest of Cortez, in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is served by one airline operating scheduled passenger service, Boutique Air, with its flights subsidized by the Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
Ute Mountain, also known as Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain, is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation. The Reservation forms the southwestern corner of the state and of Montezuma County.
Scott Randall Tipton is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district. In November 2010, he defeated three-term Democratic incumbent John Salazar, to whom he lost by a wide margin in 2006. A Republican, he was previously a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In 2020, Tipton lost renomination to Republican primary challenger Lauren Boebert in what was considered a major upset.
Colorado's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. The district takes in most of the rural Western Slope in the state's western third, with a tendril in the south taking in some of the southern portions of the Eastern Plains. It includes the cities of Grand Junction, Durango, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Ignacio and Pueblo. The district is currently represented by Republican Lauren Boebert.
Pleasant View is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The Pleasant View Post Office has the ZIP Code 81331.
William Baltzell Ebbert was an officer and adjutant in the Union Army, a Colorado legislator, newspaper publisher, author, farmer, businessman, and poet. Ebbert published the Pueblo Review and Standard newspaper in 1890, authored the landmark meat inspection legislation in Colorado in 1889 and battled with Prohibitionists in the 1910s. As a Director of the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District from 1911 to 1920, he guided the district through turbulent times and helped engineer its dissolution and reemergence as the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company in 1920.
KSJD, is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Cortez, Colorado. It primarily features National Public Radio programming. The station is currently owned by Community Radio Project.
The Trail of the Ancients is a collection of National Scenic Byways located in the U.S. Four Corners states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. These byways comprise:
McElmo Creek is a 70.1-mile-long (112.8 km) tributary that joins the San Juan River in San Juan County, Utah. The creek's source is just east of Cortez in Montezuma County, Colorado.
Gilpin County School District RE-1 is a public school district in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States.
Montezuma-Cortez High School (M-CHS) is a public senior high school located in Cortez, Colorado, United States, serving 721 students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1.
Don Coram is an American politician serving as a member of the Colorado Senate. He represents District 6, comprising the counties of: Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel. Previously, he served in the Colorado House of Representatives representing District 58 from January 2011 to January 2017.
The Green Party of Colorado (GPCO) is the affiliate of the Green Party of the United States for the state of Colorado.
Colorado's 6th Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Colorado Senate. It has been represented by Republican Don Coram since 2017, when he was appointed to succeed fellow Republican Ellen Roberts.
