# Jimmy Camp spring

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/
- Also known as: Jimmy's Camp
- Kind: Springs and water works
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.8549, -104.6631 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The camp of the 1830s trader Jimmy (Daugherty or Hays) in a sheltered valley with running water; the Jimmy Camp Trail is named for it. Marcy came up the trail in 1858 and the Green Russell party passed the same year (von Ahlefeldt p. 19; Scott, I-930 report).

## Where it was

'Jimmy Camp spring', the end of Scott's Jimmy Camp Trail on his 1975 Pueblo sheet (USGS I-930, S-0105), read from the reprojected sheet; good to a few hundred feet. The 1976 county survey photographed 'Jimmy Camp Spring … 12 miles East of Colorado Springs and just south of Highway 24' (PPLD record, S-0101).

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 0.2 mi southwest
- [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 0.6 mi southeast
- [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.9 mi southeast
- [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 5.0 mi southeast
- [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 6.1 mi northeast
- [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 6.3 mi northwest

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