# Cheese Ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/

- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0855, -104.497 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

One of the earliest homesteads in the Peyton-Bijou Basin area, begun as a horse ranch supplying mounts to the U.S. Cavalry; a small stone house built into the hillside (PPLD records of survey B5).

## Where it was

'Four miles north of Peyton on Bradshaw Road' (PPLD record of survey photo B5): four miles north of GNIS's Peyton point is the north end of Bradshaw Road in OpenStreetMap. 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.

## Nearby

- [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 3.9 mi southwest
- [Peyton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peyton/): 4.0 mi south
- [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 4.1 mi northeast
- [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 4.3 mi west
- [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 4.4 mi southwest
- [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 5.1 mi northeast

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