# Spruce Mountain

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce-mountain/

- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1555, -104.8987 (from a cited description (good to a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Three miles southwest of Greenland. A Greenland history records a fire on its south side in 1939, two caves, a hermit about 1900, and an Army plane ('C42,' perhaps a C-47) that crashed on the mountain in 1947 (Higginson, 1984, S-0045). The crash is not otherwise documented in our files.

## Where it was

GNIS's Spruce Mountain summit (Larkspur quadrangle); the events below are on the mountain, not at this point. Good to about a mile.

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

## Sources

- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045

## Nearby

- [Rural gravesite (Douglas County)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rural-gravesite-douglas-county/): 0.7 mi west
- [Spruce](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/): 0.8 mi east
- [Palmer Lake Park (1890 addition)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake-park-1890-addition/): 1.0 mi west
- [Greenmont Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenmont-cemetery/): 1.6 mi southeast
- [Eagle Mountain Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eagle-mountain-ranch/): 1.9 mi north
- [Ben Lomond Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ben-lomond-ranch/): 2.2 mi south

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