# Oaklands Ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oaklands-ranch/
- Also known as: the Curtis ranch
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3861, -104.9494 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Henry Harper Curtis and Julia Paddison Curtis came from Wales and Australia with nine children in 1871, homesteaded 160 acres and bought 240 more; cattle, turkeys, horses, dairy, grain and potatoes. Named for the scrub oak. Colorado Centennial Farm, 1996 (county map, S-0123). H. H. Curtis was master of the Pleasant Valley Grange (No. 33). Stewart family histories call it the Oakland Ranch, north of Wolfensberger Road (Larkspur Historical Society files, S-0199).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-039; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet. A 2010 family guide gives the ranch's address as 1613 N. County Highway 105, which apparently fits this pin's position along the road (S-0199).

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

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123
- S-0199: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0199

## Nearby

- [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 1.1 mi south
- [Bear Canon Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bear-canon-cemetery/): 1.4 mi southwest
- [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 1.4 mi southwest
- [Bear Cañon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bear-canon/): 1.4 mi south
- [Pleasant Valley Grange No. 33](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pleasant-valley-grange-no-33/): 1.5 mi south
- [Keystone](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone/): 2.6 mi north

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