What we know
At the Divide's north foot on Cherry Creek and the Cherokee Trail. The Pine Grove post office was applied for in 1863 and established Dec. 8, 1870 at the 20 Mile House (NW1/4 Sec. 22, T6S R66W); James S. Parker became postmaster in December 1877 and the office was renamed Parker on March 17, 1882 (Bauer, via S-0123). Pine Grove school district (No. 10) dates from before 1868; the Parker Consolidated School opened in 1915 (S-0123).
Today: Town of Parker
Where it was
USGS GNIS Populated Place 185051
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
Sources
- S-0006: USGS Geographic Names Information System, Colorado file, 2021-08-25 edition
- S-0044: Books to borrow on the Internet Archive (controlled lending, in copyright; catalog records in archive/railroads/catalog/IN-COPYRIGHT-CATALOG.tsv)
- S-0064: Wikipedia, "List of post offices in Colorado" (A–F, G–O, P–Z) and town articles
- S-0065: Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies, Place Names of Colorado (1999), PDF hosted by the Denver Public Library
- S-0066: Jim Forte Postal History, U.S. post office database (postalhistory.com)
- S-0067: USPS Postmaster Finder (webpmt.usps.gov)
- S-0068: U.S. Postal Bulletin (Post Office Department daily orders), 1880s–1950s issues
- S-0113: U.S. Post Office Department, Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 (NARA microfilm M1126), Colorado rolls 73 and 74: Douglas, Elbert and El Paso counties
- 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.