What we know
A ranch station of the Greenland Stock Farm, about 1893 (map and prospectus, S-0125). A Greenland history lists the Chambers family among the pioneers (Higginson, S-0045).
Where it was
Position read from the Map of the Greenland Stock Farm (about 1893; S-0125), NE corner Sec. 31, T9S R66W, with a spring in the SE corner of Sec. 30; label partly legible ('Chambers Ra...'), georeferenced to the BLM PLSS grid (helper's reading, label and section checked against the image 2026-10-07). Good to about a quarter mile.
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-0120: Bureau of Land Management, National Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data: CadNSDI section and quarter-section polygons, Colorado
- S-0125: "Map of the Greenland Stock Farm, situated in Township 9 and 10 South, Ranges 66 and 67 West, Douglas County, Colorado" (about 1893), two scans 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.