# Barnwell

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/

- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1726, -104.5345 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Rock Island stop, established by 1902 (Place Names of Colorado).

## Where it was

'Barnwell': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 15, T10S R64W, 'Est. by 1902. Stop on CRI&P. 5 mi S of Elbert.'; this point is 0.69 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 0.9 mi south
- [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 3.2 mi north
- [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 4.9 mi southeast
- [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 5.4 mi west
- [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 5.6 mi southwest
- [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 6.0 mi east

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