What we know
Castle Rock's D&RG station; the 1920 post office site report measured the office 525 feet west of the Denver & Rio Grande track, and in 1941 the station was 550 feet away by road (S-0113).
Where it was
Pin in the Larkspur Historical Society's Google Earth version of the county map ('DC Resources,' Train Depot folder), read from the feature's card on screen, 2026-10-07 (S-0123). Good to a few hundred feet.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
- S-0113: U.S. Post Office Department, Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 (NARA microfilm M1126), Colorado rolls 73 and 74: Douglas, Elbert and El Paso counties
- S-0123: Douglas County Historic Resource Map (Douglas County Community Planning and Sustainable Development, the Douglas County History Research Center of Douglas County Libraries, and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, 2012), as put on Google Maps and Google Earth by the Larkspur Historical Society
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.