# Perry Park post office (1892)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park-post-office-1892/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.255, -104.9881 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Perry Park post office, March 11, 1892 to Jan. 31, 1906, Frank Gilpin first postmaster, mail to Larkspur; NE1/4 Sec. 22, T9S R68W, 1 1/2 miles west of West Plum Creek (Bauer, via S-0123; the 1892 site report agrees, S-0113).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-160, 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-0113: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0113
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Nanichant Inn (Nanichant House)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/nanichant-inn-nanichant-house/): 0.2 mi northeast
- [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 0.3 mi northwest
- [Perry Park Manor House (1891)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park-manor-house-1891/): 0.4 mi northeast
- [Sentinel Rock inscription cave (stage waiting place, 1870s-1890s)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sentinel-rock-inscription-cave-stage-waiting-place-1870s-1890s/): 0.5 mi north
- [B-17 crash (1944)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/b-17-crash-1944/): 0.8 mi southeast
- [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 1.7 mi northeast

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