# Southwater

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

- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0348, -104.8403 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))
- Post office: Southwater, 1872–1878

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The post office that replaced Bassett's Mills in April 1872; postmasters Dr. S. S. Wallihan (1876) and James M. Wadsworth (1877); Husted's sawmill 'near Southwater' burned in December 1877; the office moved to Husted and took its name at the end of 1878. Place Names of Colorado also calls it 'Borsts', but the 1872 guide lists Borstville as a separate station.

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 1, T12S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR Post Office on D&RG 1872-1878. Moved from Bassetts Mills. 4 mi S of Monument'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. The News's 1872 guide to the line puts Southwater 'at the sixtieth mile-post', with 'a postoffice and extensive siding for the loading of ties and lumber'; Husted, a mile south, was 61 or 62 miles from Denver (1873, 1881).

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

## Nearby

- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 1.0 mi south
- [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.1 mi northeast
- [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 1.4 mi northwest
- [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 2.2 mi northwest
- [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 2.7 mi northeast
- [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 2.8 mi northeast

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