# Edgerton

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/
- Also known as: the first 'Monument' (1870)
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.9606, -104.8359 (approximate (Wikipedia))
- Post office: Edgerton, 1870–1902; mail later sent to Roswell
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgerton,_Colorado
- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Called Monument in 1870, then Edgerton-Monument, then Edgerton (McFarling 1958); PO 1870-1902, then moved to Pikeview. Gone, on Academy land. The Kearney-Hand murders of about March 30, 1888 happened at Hand's ranch 'a mile and a half northwest of Edgerton station' (newspapers, 1888).

## Where it was

Wikipedia (approximate). Place Names of Colorado puts it in Sec. 36, T12S R67W, '8 mi N of Colorado Springs'; that section's center is within half a mile of this point.

Wikipedia's coordinates; approximate, and still to be confirmed.

## Nearby

- [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 0.2 mi west
- [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 1.3 mi west
- [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 1.5 mi southeast
- [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.8 mi northwest
- [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.2 mi south
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 4.1 mi north

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