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: USGS Geographic Names Information System, Colorado file, 2021-08-25 edition
- S-0007: USGS GNIS DomesticNames, Colorado (current edition)
- S-0011: Lucille Lavelett, Through the Years at Monument, Colorado: The Story of Monument, Colorado, 5th printing (Palmer Lake: Palmer Lake Historical Society, 2004); first published Colorado Springs: Valliant Press, 1975
- S-0013: Lucille Lavelett, Monument's Faded Neighboring Communities and Its Folklore: Pring, Husted, Gwillimville, Table Rock, Spring Valley, Greenland (Colorado Springs: printed by ABC Printing, 1979), 70, [40] p., illus., map, facsims.; page numbers cited are those of the third printing (Palmer Lake Historical Society, 2026), which is paged differently from the 1979 printing
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.