# Chenoweth

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/chenoweth/
- Also known as: Chenowith; proposed as Laverne
- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2197, -104.4176 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))
- Post office: Chenoweth, 1897–1900; mail later sent to Elbert

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Proposed as 'Laverne' and named for the postmaster, who wrote that she had held back because the prospect for settlement was discouraging but had since much improved. A special office supplied from Elbert, a mile off the Elbert-Fondis route; Fondis about 4 miles northeast, Bijou Basin 7-8 south; about 135 people. PO Jan. 16, 1897 to Sept. 29, 1900, mail to Elbert.

## Where it was

SW1/4 of Sec. 35, T9S R63W, from Mrs. M. J. Chenoweth's post office site report, begun on the department's letter of March 4, 1895 and returned in late 1896; the diagram's mark is in Sec. 35 (NARA M1126, S-0113), via the BLM PLSS survey grid. 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-0064: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0064
- S-0065: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0065
- S-0066: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0066
- S-0067: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0067
- S-0113: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0113
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120

## Nearby

- [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 3.8 mi east
- [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 4.0 mi south
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 4.9 mi north
- [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 6.2 mi south
- [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 6.4 mi west
- [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 6.8 mi south

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