# Hargisville

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4225, -104.3523 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Hargisville, 1908–1915; mail later sent to Kiowa

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1908-1915 'in a country store' (Place Names of Colorado), on Scott's Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express line.

## Where it was

'Hargisville 1908': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 20, T7S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1908-1915. 8 mi NE of Kiowa. In a country store.'; this point is 0.37 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 7.8 mi southwest
- [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 7.9 mi southwest
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 9.5 mi south
- [Wolfcreek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/): 9.8 mi north
- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 10.5 mi south
- [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 10.6 mi southeast

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