# Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/

- Kind: Ice harvesting
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.9611, -104.8393 (from a cited description (about half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Stone ice-pond dam on West Monument Creek, built 1887 with stonework by David McShane's company; ice harvested until 1906.

## Where it was

'Reservoir No. 1 in the NW1/4 of NW1/4 of SE1/4 Sec. 36 T12S R67W' (PLHS, Jack Anthony, 2025, crediting Academy archaeologists); computed. Reservoir No. 2, today's Ice Lake, was in the W1/2 SE1/4 SE1/4.

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

## Nearby

- [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 0.2 mi east
- [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 1.1 mi west
- [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 1.7 mi southeast
- [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.6 mi northwest
- [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.3 mi south
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 4.1 mi north

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