# Lehigh

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

- Kind: Mines and quarries
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4278, -105.0334 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

A coal, sandstone and limestone camp: about 50 people, two boarding houses, six houses and a store in 1887; ten carloads of coal and two of lime shipped one week in December 1888; the mine caved in early in 1892; the rails came up in 1902 and the mine reopened in 1903 (Castle Rock Journal, 1887-92, via the county map, S-0123). Served by the D&RG's Lehigh branch.

## Where it was

On the fringe of the Divide outline (2.9 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Point in the 2011 KML of the county's Historic Resource Map (Settlement folder; S-0123). Good to a few hundred feet as a pin.

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

## Sources

- S-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Campbell Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/campbell-cemetery/): 1.3 mi south
- [Waterhouse Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/waterhouse-ranch/): 1.7 mi southwest
- [Jarre Creek School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jarre-creek-school/): 2.5 mi southeast
- [Woodhouse Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodhouse-ranch/): 2.5 mi northeast
- [Hook grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hook-grave/): 3.2 mi northeast
- [Louviers School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers-school/): 3.4 mi northeast

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