# Rock Butte

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-butte/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2924, -104.585 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))
- Post office: Rock Butte, 1869–1874

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Then in Douglas County. Frankstown 12 miles west, Bijou Basin 20 east; ten families within two miles (1869 report, certified by James F. Gardner, postmaster at Frankstown). PO 1869-1871 and 1872-1874. 5.7 miles northwest of Elbert.

## Where it was

SW1/4 of Sec. 5, T9S R64W, from G. W. Hertel's post office site report of Aug. 28, 1869, on Running Creek, east side, near the Franktown-Bijou Basin mail route (NARA M1126, S-0113), via the BLM PLSS survey grid. 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-0064: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0064
- S-0065: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0065
- S-0066: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0066
- S-0113: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0113
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120

## Nearby

- [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 4.7 mi north
- [Lucas dairy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lucas-dairy/): 5.5 mi southwest
- [Golddale post office](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/golddale-post-office/): 5.6 mi west
- [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 5.6 mi west
- [Frost's Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frosts-ranch/): 5.6 mi west
- [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 5.7 mi southeast

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