Palmer Divide Research

River Bend

Towns and settlementsHistoric or vanishedElbert County

What we know

Kansas Pacific station and town; PO Jan. 4, 1875 to Jan. 31, 1939.

Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 195102

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

See it on the map

Sources

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.

Know more about River Bend?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.