Palmer Divide Research

Spring south of Larkspur (1893)

Springs and water worksHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

A spring beside the railroad in the NE1/4 Sec. 3, T10S R67W, on the 1893 Map of the Greenland Stock Farm (S-0125).

Where it was

Position read from the Map of the Greenland Stock Farm (about 1893; S-0125), georeferenced to the BLM PLSS grid (helper's reading, checked 2026-10-07). 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.

See it on the map

Sources

  • S-0120: Bureau of Land Management, National Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data: CadNSDI section and quarter-section polygons, Colorado
  • S-0125: "Map of the Greenland Stock Farm, situated in Township 9 and 10 South, Ranges 66 and 67 West, Douglas County, Colorado" (about 1893), two scans 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 Spring south of Larkspur (1893)?

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