# Hand ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/
- Also known as: site of the Kearney-Hand murders, 1888
- Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.9634, -104.8591 (street address)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Mary Jane Kearney and her grandson Jamie Hand were killed here about March 30, 1888; the ranch lay 'a mile and a half northwest of Edgerton station' (newspapers, 1888). Ida M. Hand was probably the boy's mother (an inference: the papers name her only as Mrs. Hand).

## Where it was

Ida M. Hand's patented land (Oct. 10, 1882), the central 160 acres of Sec. 35, T12S R67W (E1/2 NW, SW NE, NE SW). Center of those parcels; good to about half a mile.

A street address, located with the county's address points.

## Nearby

- [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 1.1 mi east
- [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 1.3 mi east
- [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.1 mi north
- [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 2.5 mi southeast
- [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.9 mi southeast
- [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.