What we know
A round lake at the SW corner of Sec. 8, T10S R66W on the 1893 Map of the Greenland Stock Farm, one of the farm's 'natural lake basins' in its prospectus (S-0125).
Where it was
Position read from the Map of the Greenland Stock Farm (about 1893; S-0125), georeferenced to the BLM PLSS grid (helper's reading, checked 2026-10-07). 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.
Sources
- S-0120: Bureau of Land Management, National Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data: CadNSDI section and quarter-section polygons, Colorado
- S-0125: "Map of the Greenland Stock Farm, situated in Township 9 and 10 South, Ranges 66 and 67 West, Douglas County, Colorado" (about 1893), two scans by the Larkspur Historical Society
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.