Do you know of Cortez ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cortez. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Cortez.

We found mention of Cortez as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Graham County, Kansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1882.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Cortez ...

We found eight communities that share the name Cortez.

Within Kansas, the name Cortez is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Merced County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cortez [Merced County].
  • Colorado
    • Montezuma County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Cortez [Montezuma County].
  • Florida
    • Manatee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Cortez [Manatee County].
  • Nevada
    • Lander County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Cortez [Lander County].
  • New Mexico
    • Valencia County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Cortez [Valencia County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cortez [Jefferson County].
    • Lackawanna County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cortez [Lackawanna County].
  • Texas
    • Starr County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cortez [Starr County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cortez ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cortez:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

More Orphans in  Graham County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Graham County.