# Pratt farm

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/
- Also known as: Gideon C. Pratt
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2097, -104.7279 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

The Pratts came in 1867 for a sawmill and homesteaded 'at the near corner of Greenland Rd. and Hwy. 83'; Harry C. Pratt's lone grave marker is on the old homestead (mapped separately from the county map's pin). The county landmark nomination: a 720-acre homestead filed in 1869; Gideon Pratt was a state representative, county commissioner and assessor; he gave an acre for the Pratt school, which burned about 1899; the family sold in 1902 after his death and the house burned in 1911 (S-0123). Place Names of Colorado's Spring Valley section is this farm.

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 1, T10S R66W: 'substantial farmer of section 1, township 10, range 66 west' (Portrait and Biographical Record, 1898). Good to about half a mile.

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

## Sources

- S-0065: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0065
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Harry C. Pratt grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/harry-c-pratt-grave/): 0.2 mi southeast
- [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 0.5 mi east
- [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 0.8 mi southeast
- [Cherry Valley School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-valley-school/): 2.0 mi northeast
- [Seaburg farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/seaburg-farm/): 2.2 mi north
- [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 3.0 mi northeast

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