# Beaver Creek Ranch (the Waldon ranch)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/beaver-creek-ranch-the-waldon-ranch/

- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0614, -104.9011 (USGS GNIS point for the feature itself (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Abbott Waldon's ranch, near the Hay Creek ranch, 'is still known as the Beaver Creek ranch'; in January 1979 the town of Monument was negotiating to buy its 1,065 acres for the water rights (Lavelett 1979, S-0013, pp. 61-62).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS locale 'Beaver Creek Ranch', El Paso County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007); Lavelett: near the Hay Creek ranch, three miles south of Monument and west of the Pring station (S-0013, p. 61). Good to a few hundred feet.

## Sources

- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0007: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0007
- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0013: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0013

## Nearby

- [Welty ranches and stone fort (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/welty-ranches-and-stone-fort-1868/): 1.5 mi east
- [Monument Nursery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/): 1.6 mi north
- [Monument Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-rock/): 1.9 mi north
- [Mount Herman](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mount-herman/): 2.0 mi northwest
- [Monument Lake dam (1889-1892)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-lake-dam-1889-1892/): 2.2 mi northeast
- [Cathedral Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cathedral-rock/): 2.2 mi south

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