What we know
Wikipedia calls it the Palmer Divide's high point, 7,887 feet (S-0132); GNIS gives 7,877. It stands about a mile north of the Platte-Arkansas drainage line, which itself tops out at 7,709 feet in the Black Forest.
Where it was
GNIS's Bald Mountain (summit, 7,877 ft), labeled 'Bald Mtn, 7887' on the 1913 USGS Castle Rock sheet (S-0124) in the NW1/4 Sec. 36, T10S R67W. Good to a few hundred feet.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0006: USGS Geographic Names Information System, Colorado file, 2021-08-25 edition
- S-0048: Wikipedia: "List of ghost towns in Colorado," the populated-places lists by county, county articles, and articles on vanished places
- S-0124: U.S. Geological Survey, Castle Rock, Colo., 30-minute quadrangle, 1:125,000, edition of 1913 (surveyed 1911), as scanned by the Larkspur Historical Society ("Area Roads, 1913 USGS Map")
- S-0132: Wikipedia, "Palmer Divide" (revision 1367612906, Aug. 4, 2026)
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.