# Rock Ridge

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/
- Also known as: Virginia; Frost's Ranch; later Case, Irving
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.261, -104.704 (from a cited description (about half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

POs Virginia Sept. 1869, Frost's Ranch Feb. 1871, Rock Ridge Feb. 1872 to March 31, 1892 (mail to Castle Rock); Case 1897, Irving 1913-1920. Crofutt (1881): 'Formerly Ivan Cracken … at the head of Cherry Creek Canon.' The name covered ranches from Antelope Creek to East Cherry Creek.

## Where it was

Approximate (about half a mile): the Rock Ridge school (District 24) stood 'on the top of a ridge to the east of' the Russellville Road-Hwy 83 intersection (DCL schools page); the Rock Ridge-Case cemetery is half a mile west along Hwy 83; Place Names of Colorado puts Case in Sec. 18, T9S R65W, half a mile north-west; an 1889 road 'in Rock Ridge' started in Sec. 20, T9S R65W.

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

## Nearby

- [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 0.6 mi southwest
- [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 1.5 mi northeast
- [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi north
- [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 3.6 mi south
- [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 3.8 mi south
- [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 4.3 mi south

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