What we know
'East Husted near the Santa Fe tracks'; when the store at West Husted burned, the post office moved here (Lavelett 1979, S-0013, pp. 66-67). 'There was a station for the Santa Fe Railroad at East Husted' (S-0021, p. 104). West Husted, the D&RG side, is the Husted point.
Where it was
East Husted's station base lies three-quarters of a mile south of the North Gate on the New Santa Fe Trail (Eckert's Sun Hills neighborhood history, S-0114); placed three-quarters of a mile along the trail (the old Santa Fe grade in OpenStreetMap) from its crossing of North Gate Boulevard. 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-0013: Lucille Lavelett, Monument's Faded Neighboring Communities and Its Folklore: Pring, Husted, Gwillimville, Table Rock, Spring Valley, Greenland (Colorado Springs: printed by ABC Printing, 1979), 70, [40] p., illus., map, facsims.; page numbers cited are those of the third printing (Palmer Lake Historical Society, 2026), which is paged differently from the 1979 printing
- S-0021: Palmer Lake Historical Society, Communities of the Palmer Divide (Arcadia Publishing, March 2011)
- S-0103: OpenStreetMap extracts via the Overpass API (2026-10-05)
- S-0114: Bill Eckert, "Sun Hills Neighborhood History," Sun Hills Association website (sunhillsestates.org), "History & Community Links" page; undated (after 2004)
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.