Eckert Colorado

The town of Eckert Colorado is part of the bigger incorporated Orchard City, in Delta County Colorado. It’s a small community which had the original school in the area as well as a subdivision of families who were farmers in the orchards which filled the community landscape. Early in the 1900’s, Eckert was part of a trio of towns which banded together in a common cause to bring clean drinking water to the farmers and their families. Along with Austin and Cory, Eckert residents worked through many problems to get clean water from the Grand Mesa to the people. It took a few years to work out the issues, but by 1916 the pipeline was completed and Orchard City had clean water.

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According to the mayor of the area, Tom Huerkamp, “The town boundaries grew as water lines were extended. The people in Eckert wanted water taps off the pipeline. The residents of Cory wanted clean water. So Orchard City sold taps to Eckert and Cory property owners under one condition – they had to agree to join the town. Soon all of Eckert and Cory were part of Orchard City as well, however, it was all done sans the legal process. It was not discovered until the 1980s that Eckert and Cory had never been properly annexed. The Town of Orchard City had to spend thousands of dollars publishing legal notices to finish the annexation. By the 1980s the three communities were officially combined as they are today to form Orchard City. Each has separate post offices, separate zip codes, and separate histories, but all are part of one common entity.”

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