What we know
One of the high points of the Black Forest, beside Vollmer Road, the old Angling Road, one of the few roads through the forest at the start of the 1920s (von Ahlefeldt pp. 45, 95). Paul Vollmer owned a ranch on what became Vollmer Road (von Ahlefeldt, interview list, S-0009); Paul F. and Cornelius J. Vollmer were Ford agents in Colorado Springs from 1913 as Vollmer Brothers (Stone 1918, S-0193). That the hill is named for the family is an inference.
Where it was
USGS GNIS feature 193290, summit, 7,707 feet (S-0006); the USGS elevation service gives 7,700 feet there (checked 2026-10-11). Koch's p. 19 map prints 'Vollmer Hill 7704'' about 2.7 miles north, in Sec. 28, T11S R65W (S-0197), but the ground there is 7,564 feet and nothing within a mile of her label tops 7,640, so her label is displaced and her elevation is this hill's.
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-0009: Judy von Ahlefeldt, Thunder, Sun and Snow: The History of Colorado's Black Forest (Colorado Springs: Century One Press, a division of Graphic Services, Inc., 1979)
- S-0193: History of Colorado, illustrated, vols. 2-4, biographical (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918 [vols. 2-3] and 1919 [vol. 4]), the set edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone
- S-0197: Susan E. (Steppler) Koch, The Land Is In My Blood: The History of The Divide Country and Its Pioneers, complete with Driving Tour and Homestead Maps (self-published; copyright 2015, U.S. Copyright Office TXu 2-251-186; first printing 2008, second October 2015, this copy the third printing, fall 2018)
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.