# Keystone post office (1871-72)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone-post-office-1871-72/
- Also known as: Keystone #2
- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4824, -104.9889 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Keystone's second site, NW1/4 SE1/4 Sec. 34, T6S R68W, a quarter mile east of Plum Creek, from March 28, 1871 until the office closed Oct. 28, 1872 (Bauer, via S-0123). The first site, from 1869 at Craig's Ranch near the forks of Plum Creek, is our Keystone point.

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-152, S-0123), placed from Bauer's quarter-section description. 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-0044: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0044
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Gann School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gann-school/): 0.3 mi southwest
- [Kellytown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kellytown/): 0.4 mi west
- [Louviers depot (Toluca)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers-depot-toluca/): 0.4 mi west
- [Keystone Ranch post office](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone-ranch-post-office/): 1.0 mi northeast
- [Louviers](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers/): 1.0 mi west
- [Louviers Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers-community-church/): 1.0 mi west

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