Cory, Colorado

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{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Cory, Colorado

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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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| image_skyline = Cory, Colorado.JPG

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| image_caption = Cory's general store and post office on Highway 65

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|pushpin_label = Cory

|pushpin_label_position =left

|pushpin_map_caption =Location within the state of Colorado

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = {{USA}}

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Colorado|name=State of Colorado}}

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Delta County{{cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=US Board on Geographic Names|publisher=United States Geological Survey|date=2007-10-25}}

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|unit_pref = Imperial

|timezone = MST

|utc_offset = -7

|timezone_DST = MDT

|utc_offset_DST = -6

|coordinates = {{coord|38|47|17|N|107|59|08|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}

|elevation_footnotes =

|elevation_m = 1581

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|postal_code_type = ZIP Code{{cite web|date=December 15, 2006 |url=http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp |title=ZIP Code Lookup |format=JavaScript/HTML |publisher=United States Postal Service |accessdate=December 15, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903025217/http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp |archivedate=September 3, 2007 }}

|postal_code = 81414

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Cory is a small unincorporated community within the boundaries of the incorporated town of Orchard City in Delta County, Colorado, United States. There is a U.S. Post Office in Cory, the ZIP Code for which is 81414.

A post office called Cory has been in operation since 1895.{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |title=Post offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=25 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120236/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |archivedate=6 March 2016 }} An early postmaster gave the community the name of his wife, Cora Hurshman.{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=21|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=15}}