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Cowdrey, Colorado

unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5179641 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cowdrey is an unincorporated community with a U.S. Post Office in Jackson County, Colorado, United States. The Cowdrey Post Office has the ZIP Code 80434.

History

The Cowdrey, Colorado, post office opened on April 5, 1915.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cowdrey, Colorado” as unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cowdrey, Colorado and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cowdrey, Colorado and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cowdrey, Colorado”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5179641. Authority coordinates are 40.858, -106.312. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1915.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cowdrey, Colorado”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cowdrey, Colorado primary sources, Cowdrey, Colorado archive and Cowdrey research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cowdrey, Colorado”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Cowdrey, Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.