Welcome to Montezuma County Colorado History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is available for adoption! This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family. Our Group's goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. Learn more about joining our group as a county host and then CONTACT US. DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. If you have any comments, questions or data contributions, CONTACT US WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.  All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information In April 1889, Montezuma County was created out of La Plata County. It is the southwesternmost of the 64 counties. The county seat is Cortez. Founded April 16, 1889 Named for Aztec ruler Montezuma II Mesa Verde National Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Yucca House National Monument, and Hovenweep National Monument preserve hundreds of ancient Amerindian structures, including the famous cliff-dwellings, found in the county. Montezuma County is also home to most of the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, home of the Weeminuche Band of the Ute Nation, known as the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, with its headquarters at Towaoc. (source: wikipedia) Cities, Towns and Other Communities Arriloa * Cortez * Dolores * Badger House Community * Echo House * Golconda * Lebanon * Lewis * Mancos * Mariano * Millwood * Pleasant View * Roundup Junction * Stapleton * Stoner * Swallows Nest * Towaoc * Weber * Yellow Jacket Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Western States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Western States of : Colorado -- Idaho -- Montana -- Utah -- Wyoming Visit our State Site  Adjacent Counties * Dolores County - north * San Juan County - northeast * La Plata County - east * San Juan County, NM - south * Apache County,AZ - southwest * San Juan County, Utah - west Visit our National Site  Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.