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08-17375. GNIS feature ID. 2410236 [6] Website. City of Cortez. Cortez (/ ˈkɔːrtɛz / ⓘ) is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States Census. [5]
3rd. Website. montezumacounty.org. Prehistoric petroglyphs in Mesa Verde National Park. Castle, Hovenweep National Monument. Montezuma County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,849. [1] The county seat is Cortez.
Lizard Head Peak along SH 145. The route begins in the south at its intersection with US 160 in the eastern portion of the city of Cortez. The route winds northward through the towns of Dolores, Rico, Sawpit, Placerville, Norwood, and Redvale before terminating at the junction with SH 141 about four miles (6.4 km) east of Naturita.
Website. Hovenweep National Monument. Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributaries run through the wide and deep canyons into the San Juan River. [3]
Topo map. USGS 7.5' topographic map. Battle Rock, Colorado [1] Ute Mountain, also known as Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain (/ ˈjuːt /; Ute: Wisuv Káruv, Navajo: Dził Naajiní), 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 ...
A USAF Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft made an emergency nighttime forced landing at the Cortez Municipal Airport on August 3, 1959. [12] Major Hsi-Chun Mike Hua [13] was on a training flight originating at Laughlin AFB, Texas; the U-2 aircraft engine flamed out at 70,000 feet MSL. Maj. Hua established best glide and was able to navigate through a valley to a lighted airport that wasn't ...
Website. www.mancoscolorado.com. Mancos is a statutory town in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,196 at the 2020 census, [6] down from 1,336 in 2010. [8] The town is in southwestern Colorado, at the base of Mesa Verde National Park, and holds the trademark for "Gateway to Mesa Verde". [9]
Dolores County, Colorado. "Bravoite", Pyrite with a thin coating of Molybdenite, from the old Rico Argentine Mine. Dolores County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,326. [2] The county seat is Dove Creek. [3]