# Upper Lake Gulch School

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/upper-lake-gulch-school/

- Kind: Schools
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2674, -104.7987 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

School for the German Catholic families of southeastern Douglas County. The first building burned in 1917; a brick school of the early 1920s still stood in 2012, its windows broken, on a hill west of Garton Road. Frances Ryan, later the wife of Lowell Thomas, taught here in 1913-14. Closed in 1952 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-213; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

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

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Twin Creek Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/twin-creek-ranch/): 2.0 mi northeast
- [Lake Gulch Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake-gulch-cemetery/): 2.2 mi northeast
- [Chambers Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/chambers-ranch/): 2.6 mi south
- [A. C. Hunt cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/a-c-hunt-cabin/): 2.7 mi west
- [Seaburg farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/seaburg-farm/): 3.7 mi southeast
- [Lake Gulch School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake-gulch-school/): 3.9 mi northeast

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