# Norton

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

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3007, -104.2321 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Norton, 1899–1915

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1899-1915, southeast of Kiowa; Scott adds '(Stoller)'.

## Where it was

'Norton 1898': 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. 4, T9S R61W, 'Rural Post Office 1899-1915. 12 mi SE of Kiowa.'; this point is 0.5 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

- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 3.8 mi southwest
- [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 5.9 mi east
- [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 8.5 mi southwest
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 9.3 mi west
- [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 10.6 mi northwest
- [Claud](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/): 12.2 mi northeast

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