# Fishbeck fox farm

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fishbeck-fox-farm/

- Kind: Fox and fur farms
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0105, -104.6818 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Phil Fishbeck's farm, from the early 1930s. He specialized in black-silver foxes and developed a platinum-silver variety (von Ahlefeldt p. 92; his daughter Mildred Hardgrove was her source).

## Where it was

'Just south of Shoup on Hering Road' (Ellett p. 65); 'on Herring Road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92). Placed about 0.15 mile south of the Shoup-Herring junction 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

- [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 0.2 mi north
- [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi north
- [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 1.0 mi west
- [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.0 mi west
- [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.0 mi west
- [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.0 mi west

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