Cahone, Colorado
Unincorporated community
Entering Cahone from the south on U.S. Highway 491
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Coordinates: 37°39′39″N 108°48′01″W / 37.66083°N 108.80028°W / 37.66083; -108.80028
Country	United States
State	State of Colorado
County	Dolores County
Established	About 1912[1]
Elevation [2]	6,680 ft (2,036 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP Code	81320[3]

Cahone is an unincorporated village in western Dolores County, Colorado, United States, about 9 miles southeast of Dove Creek straddling U.S. Highway 491. There is a post office there, and a large bean farm with storage and processing facility, and also a small bar and grill; but no grocery or automobile service facilities or tourist lodgings, or other businesses or services.

History

The Ansel Hall Ruin, also known as the Cahone Ruin, was a prehistoric North San Juan pueblo from the 1000–1499 AD period which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997.^[4] The town of Cahone was established about 1912.^[1] The town was named by Bert Ballenger, later the town's first postmaster, for a nearby canyon named El Cajón in Spanish, meaning little box.^[1] The Cahone Post Office opened on May 21, 1916.^[5]