# Ayer Ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/

- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.008, -104.6024 (street address)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Hobbs (1950) placed Easton's first post office 'about one mile north and east of the Ayer Ranch'. Judy von Ahlefeldt's 1979 Black Forest map shows the Ayer Ranch just south of the Eastonville cemetery. The 1976 county survey (B19) gives 12620 Meridian Road, with a log homestead cabin of about 1880, barns and a potato cellar; the Census geocoder puts that address about two-thirds of a mile north-northwest, in Sec. 7; not reconciled.

## Where it was

Richard Ayer's patented land (1890 and 1893), the north and middle of Sec. 18, T12S R64W; the Ayer family also patented parts of Secs. 6, 19 and 20 (1886-96). Center of Richard Ayer's parcels; good to about half a mile.

A street address, located with the county's address points.

## Nearby

- [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.6 mi north
- [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 0.6 mi northwest
- [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.6 mi northwest
- [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 1.0 mi north
- [Granger](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/granger/): 3.4 mi south
- [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.8 mi northwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.