# Redman Rancho

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/
- Also known as: the first Spring Valley post office (1865)
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.148, -104.7699 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

George W. Redman, county school superintendent in 1862 and Spring Valley's first postmaster (1865); his place 'was known as the Redman Rancho'. The office later moved to Gile's ranch in the NE1/4 of the same section.

## Where it was

Center of the SW1/4 of Sec. 27, T10S R66W: George W. Redman's patent of Aug. 5, 1869 (Spring Valley School landmark nomination, Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 132); 'Redman's claim in SW 1/4 of sec 27' in the 1866 survey notes (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 5). Good to about a quarter mile.

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

## Nearby

- [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.3 mi north
- [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.7 mi northeast
- [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.8 mi north
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 1.3 mi north
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.3 mi northeast
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.3 mi southeast

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