Palmer Divide Research

Simla

Towns and settlementsLiving todayElbert County

What we know

Rock Island stop; town founded 1909; PO Aug. 12, 1909; incorporated 1911 or 1912 (sources differ).

Today: Town of Simla

Where it was

USGS GNIS Populated Place 193219

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 Simla?

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