Cora, KansasCora is a former town in Smith County, Kansas, United States.HistoryA small village settled in the early 1870s, in 1883 Cora was reported as having one store, a blacksmith and wainwright, a schoolhouse, and a Congregationalist church. A post office operated from 1871 to 1904. Cora suffered from depopulation in the mid-20th-century and by 1981 only one inhabited house remained. Today, a car scrapyard occupies part of the former town site.