# McFerran coal mines

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/

- Kind: Mines and quarries
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.8503, -104.6547 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Lignite mines reached by a Denver & New Orleans spur (von Ahlefeldt p. 51). Hall's vol. 4 (1895) names a company that owned and operated 'the McFerran coal mines, near Colorado Springs'. McFerran Road in Black Forest carries the name.

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Mine 1734078. 'McFerran, five miles northwest of Franceville, is another busy coal mining town, where besides stores, hotels, etc., are well conducted schools'; 'At Franceville and McFerran are mines of lignite coal, which are extensively worked' (Frank Hall, History of the State of Colorado, vol. 3, 1891). GNIS's McFerran and Franceville mines are 4.3 miles apart, northwest-southeast.

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

## Nearby

- [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 0.6 mi northwest
- [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 0.6 mi west
- [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.3 mi southeast
- [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 4.4 mi southeast
- [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 6.2 mi northeast
- [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 6.8 mi northwest

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