Palmer Divide Research

Barnwell

Railroad stations, depots and structuresHistoric or vanishedElbert County

What we know

Rock Island stop, established by 1902 (Place Names of Colorado).

Where it was

'Barnwell': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 15, T10S R64W, 'Est. by 1902. Stop on CRI&P. 5 mi S of Elbert.'; this point is 0.69 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

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 Barnwell?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.