# Divide Grange No. 53

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/divide-grange-no-53/

- Kind: Other historic buildings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1521, -104.7701 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Organized Feb. 18, 1874 at Spring Valley; it met at the schoolhouse (1878, 1900) and ran a co-operative store, sold to Jacob Geiger in April 1884 ('Call on the wild Dutchman,' his 1881 advertisement); Jacob Geiger was master in 1900 (Castle Rock Journal and Douglas County News items quoted on the county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-075; S-0123), at the grange's meeting place; 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-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.0 mi west
- [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.3 mi south
- [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi north
- [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.6 mi northeast
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 1.0 mi north
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.2 mi northeast

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