# Orsburn

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

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4474, -104.5927 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Orsburn, 1885–1896

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1885-1896 on Running (Box Elder) Creek north of Elizabeth; Scott dates it 1884.

## Where it was

'Orsburn P.O. 1884': 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. 7, T7S R64W, 'Rural Post Office 1885-1896. 7 mi N of Elizabeth.'; this point is 0.64 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

- [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 3.7 mi south
- [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 4.1 mi southwest
- [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 4.7 mi west
- [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 6.0 mi south
- [The Pinery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/): 7.6 mi west
- [Hungate site (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hungate-site-1864/): 8.4 mi north

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