# James H. Shumate ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/james-h-shumate-ranch/

- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0093, -104.829 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

James H. Shumate came in 1873, built 'a log room, 14x16', where he lived for a year, and for five years supplied the hotel at Manitou with butter. In 1879 he started 'a store at what is now Husted', sold $70,000 of goods in the summers of 1881 and 1882 and was postmaster for six years; in 1899 he was clerk and trustee of the Husted Baptist Church (PBR 1899, S-0192, pp. 658-662). McGrath's The Real Pioneers of Colorado (1934) says he accumulated 1,400 acres near Husted (S-0200).

## Where it was

Shumate's homestead patent of Jan. 10, 1888: W1/2 NW and NE NW of Sec. 18, T12S R66W, and SE NE of Sec. 13, T12S R67W (BLM GLO, S-0080), the land around the range line that his 1899 sketch calls 'section 13, township 12, range 67 west' (PBR 1899, S-0192, p. 658); center of those tracts on the BLM PLSS grid. 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-0080: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0080
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120
- S-0192: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0192
- S-0200: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0200

## Nearby

- [East Husted (Santa Fe station)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/east-husted-santa-fe-station/): 0.5 mi north
- [Dead Man's Creek (an 1860s 'bloody tragedy')](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dead-mans-creek-an-1860s-bloody-tragedy/): 0.8 mi northwest
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 1.0 mi northwest
- [Henry B. Walker ranch (1869-1907)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/henry-b-walker-ranch-1869-1907/): 1.0 mi northwest
- [Reynolds Ranch House (Twin Oaks ranch)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-ranch-house-twin-oaks-ranch/): 1.2 mi north
- [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.9 mi northwest

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