El Cuartelejo

El Cuartelejo
El Cuartelejo Ruins, Lake Scott State Park, Kansas
El Cuartelejo is located in Kansas
El Cuartelejo
El Cuartelejo is located in the United States
El Cuartelejo
LocationWestern Kansas and eastern Colorado
Coordinates38°40′41″N 100°54′51″W / 38.67806°N 100.91417°W / 38.67806; -100.91417
BuiltApache of the Dismal River culture occupation between 1450 and 1650; Puebloans joined them between 1620 and 1680.[1]
NRHP reference No.66000351
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[2]
Designated NHLDJuly 19, 1964[3]

El Cuartelejo, or El Quartelejo (from Spanish cuartelejo, meaning old building or barracks),[4][5][a] is a region in eastern Colorado and western Kansas where Plains Apache cohabited with Puebloans. Subject to religious persecution, Puebloans fled the Spanish Nuevo México territory and cohabitated with the Cuartelejo villagers in the 1600s.[4][7]

Some people fled to the Arkansas River area of present-day Kiowa County, Colorado. Juan de Ulibarri came to the Arkansas River area of Colorado in 1706 to capture and return Pueblo Native Americans who fled Nuevo Mexico in 1680.[7]

In Kansas, an archeological district is the site of a Plains Apache and Puebloan village. It is the northernmost Native American pueblo and the only known pueblo in Kansas. Located in Lake Scott State Park, the remains of the stone and adobe pueblo are situated 13 miles north of Scott City, Kansas, in Ladder Creek Canyon.[3][4] It is also known as The Scott County Pueblo.[1]

In 1964, El Cuartelejo Archaeologist District (14SC1) was designated a National Historic Landmark.[3][4] Of the 26 archaeological sites, most are from Apache of the Dismal River culture of prehistoric, proto-historic and early historic periods[4] from about 1450 until the mid-1700s.[1] This group of Apache are called the Cuartelejo band.[8]

  1. ^ a b c Trabert, Sarah. "The Scott County Pueblo (14SC1)". Great Plains Archaeology at OU. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c "El Quartelejo". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d e "El Cuartelejo Archaeologist District National Historic Landmark" (PDF). Kansas State Historical Society. February 22, 1985.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference SAH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "El Cuartelejo". www.elquartelejomuseum.org. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Kiowa County". coloradoencyclopedia.org. November 14, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  8. ^ "El Cuartelejo Pueblo Brochure". Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved October 28, 2021.


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