# Douglas

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/
- Also known as: Douglass
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3404, -104.8771 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))
- Post office: Douglass, 1874–1886

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The first Castle Rock PO (April 5, 1871); in 1872 'a little store and a water tank as yet monopolize the corner lots' (News); Douglas PO 1874-1886; platted July 28, 1880 by the National Land & Improvement Co.; stone quarries (rhyolite).

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 22, T8S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('Rural Post Office 1874-1886. Previously Castle Rock'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Crofutt (1881) and Hall (1891) both put Douglas 'three miles south of Castle Rock' on East Plum Creek and the D&RG; the section center is 2.2 miles south of downtown Castle Rock.

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

## Nearby

- [Madge Quarry](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/): 1.2 mi east
- [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 2.5 mi northeast
- [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 2.7 mi north
- [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.7 mi south
- [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 3.0 mi south
- [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 3.8 mi northeast

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