# Husted

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/
- Also known as: East and West Husted
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0203, -104.8403 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))
- Post office: Husted, 1878–1920

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

D&RG station and C. R. Husted's sawmill (1875); 'Husted station, six miles below' Henry's and 'thirteen miles' above Colorado Springs (News, 1873); the Southwater post office, a mile north, moved here and took the name Husted at the end of 1878 (PO 1878-1895 and 1896-1920); the Aug. 14, 1909 collision. Gone, on Air Force Academy land.

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 12, T12S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR Post Office on D&RG 1878-1920'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Judy von Ahlefeldt's 1979 map of the Black Forest puts Husted within about a mile of it, and PLHS places it near the Academy's north entrance. Wikipedia's point (38.991, -104.833) is two miles farther south.

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

## Nearby

- [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.0 mi north
- [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.9 mi northeast
- [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.2 mi southwest
- [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 2.4 mi north
- [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 3.2 mi north
- [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 3.3 mi northeast

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