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: USGS Geographic Names Information System, Colorado file, 2021-08-25 edition
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
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.