# Bijou Creek swing station

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2771, -104.2959 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Stage station on the Smoky Hill South route (Place Names of Colorado); Scott's Butterfield Overland Despatch route of 1865 ends here.

## Where it was

'Bijou Creek Swing Station': 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. 11, T9S R62W, 'Stage station on Smoky Hill South stage route. 11 OR 18 mi SE of Kiowa?'; this point is 0.39 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.

## Nearby

- [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 3.8 mi northeast
- [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 5.0 mi southwest
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 5.9 mi west
- [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 9.2 mi east
- [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 10.2 mi northwest
- [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 10.3 mi northwest

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