# Spring Valley Cemetery

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/
- Also known as: Killin Chapel (1966)
- Kind: Cemeteries
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1592, -104.768 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

'In a grove of towering pine trees one mile north of Spring Valley' (Marr); oldest graves dated 1870; Daniel Holden gave the back portion to 'the People of Spring Valley' in 1877; chapel built 1966. GNIS's point is half a mile north of the store site. Among the graves: six Gile children who died in 1880, the diphtheria year, and a marker for three Gwillim children of Gwillimville (Charlie Searle, Tribune, May 5, 2020, with photographs).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Cemetery 193194

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

## Nearby

- [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.5 mi southeast
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.5 mi northeast
- [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.5 mi south
- [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.8 mi south
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.0 mi east
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.7 mi southeast

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