# Gile's ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/
- Also known as: Spring Valley stage station and post office (1877)
- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1552, -104.7606 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Joseph F. Gile's ranch: the Spring Valley stage station of the 1860s and the post office in 1877. John Irion's fort of the 1860s is put 'about a mile south of Giles Ranch' (Scott's trail map, Sec. 34); not placed.

## Where it was

Center of the NE1/4, Sec. 27, T10S R66W: 'Gile's claim in NE 1/4 of sec 27' (1866 survey notes, as transcribed in the Larkspur binder) and the post office site report signed by J. F. Gile, Feb. 28, 1877 ('North-East quarter of Section No. 27'). 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

- [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi northwest
- [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.6 mi west
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 0.7 mi northeast
- [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.7 mi southwest
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.7 mi north
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.3 mi southeast

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