# Borst

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/
- Also known as: Borstville
- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0639, -104.859 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

D&RG station; 'Borst … farming and stock; population 50' in the News's 1874 list; 'the first station on the Rio Grande south of Monument' (McFarling). Named for W. W. Borst, the D&RG's superintendent. Not Southwater: the News's 1872 guide to the line lists Borstville 'a few miles' below Henry's and Southwater separately at the sixtieth milepost, though Place Names of Colorado gives 'Borsts' as Southwater's other name.

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 26, T11S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('On D&RGW'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 0.8 mi southeast
- [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 1.6 mi north
- [Santa Fe bridge collapse (July 17, 1895)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-bridge-collapse-july-17-1895/): 1.6 mi north
- [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 2.0 mi north
- [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 2.0 mi north
- [Guire homestead ('Willow Grove')](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/guire-homestead-willow-grove/): 2.0 mi north

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