Palmer Divide Research

Sedalia Rio Grande depot

Railroad stations, depots and structuresHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Original site SE1/4 SE1/4 Sec. 14, T7S R68W, north of Rio Grande Avenue; dismantled by the railroad after passenger service ended in 1969 (county map, citing the 1937 aerial photograph, S-0123).

Where it was

Point in the 2011 KML of the county's Historic Resource Map (Train Depot folder; S-0123). Good to a few hundred feet as a pin.

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

See it on the map

Sources

  • 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.

Know more about Sedalia Rio Grande depot?

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