# Waterhouse Ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/waterhouse-ranch/

- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4158, -105.0608 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Lawrence and Olive Waterhouse homesteaded 160 acres among the Roxborough red rocks in 1910 and built a 14-by-24-foot brick house with brick from the Silica Brick Company; corn, cane, wheat, oats, cattle and hogs. He died in 1925 and she sold in 1927; the land became part of Roxborough State Park in 1997 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

On the fringe of the Divide outline (3.9 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-031; 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-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Campbell Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/campbell-cemetery/): 1.2 mi east
- [Lehigh](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lehigh/): 1.7 mi northeast
- [Jarre Canyon silver fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jarre-canyon-silver-fox-farm/): 2.7 mi southwest
- [Woodbine Lodge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodbine-lodge/): 2.7 mi southwest
- [Kreutzer Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kreutzer-homestead/): 2.9 mi south
- [Jarre Creek School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jarre-creek-school/): 3.1 mi southeast

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