# Resolis

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

- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2697, -103.8398 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))
- Post office: Resolis, 1890–1914

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Rock Island post village, platted 1888; PO 1890-1914. Limon 9 miles east, Mattison 10 west, River Bend 3.5 northeast; Big Sandy Creek half a mile; about 100 people (1890). The report first gave the county as Lincoln, struck for Elbert. Eastern ridge.

## Where it was

NW1/4 of Sec. 13, T9S R58W, from William H. Reed's post office site report of July 11, 1890, at the Rock Island depot (NARA M1126, S-0113), via the BLM PLSS survey grid. Good to about a quarter mile. Place Names of Colorado also shows it in Sec. 27.

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

## Sources

- S-0065: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0065
- S-0066: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0066
- S-0068: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0068
- S-0113: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0113
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120

## Nearby

- [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 2.8 mi northeast
- [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 5.5 mi north
- [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 7.9 mi east
- [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 9.9 mi southwest
- [Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/): 10.6 mi east
- [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 14.3 mi north

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