Palmer Divide Research

Agate

Also: Gebhard

Towns and settlementsLiving todayElbert County

What we know

Kansas Pacific station 67 miles east of Denver (1877); PO Gebhard from April 8, 1881, Agate from April 24, 1882.

Today: Post office open (USPS)

Where it was

USGS GNIS Populated Place 204818

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Agate?

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