What we know
A wildcat oil well begun in September 1955 by independent operators led by F. G. Holl, a Wichita geologist, on land of the Greenland Land and Cattle Co. (Douglas County News, Sept. 8, 1955, S-0142). Whether it found anything is not yet known.
Where it was
'In the center of the southeast quarter, northeast quarter of Section 17, Township 10 south, Range 66 west' (Douglas County News, Sept. 8, 1955, S-0142); placed at the center of that quarter-quarter from the BLM PLSS (CadNSDI). 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-0120: Bureau of Land Management, National Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data: CadNSDI section and quarter-section polygons, Colorado
- S-0142: Greenland in the Colorado newspapers, 1871–1960: headline sweep (CHNC)
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.