What we know
Built about 1882, soon after the Denver & New Orleans began running through Parker; the line was downgraded in 1899 and the depot dismantled after operations ended in 1935. Original site SW1/4 NE1/4 Sec. 22, T6S R66W (county map, citing the 1937 aerial photograph, S-0123).
Where it was
Point in the 2011 KML of the county's Historic Resource Map (Train Depot 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-0123: Douglas County Historic Resource Map (Douglas County Community Planning and Sustainable Development, the Douglas County History Research Center of Douglas County Libraries, and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, 2012), as put on Google Maps and Google Earth by the Larkspur Historical Society
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.