Town/Place Name |
Dates/Remarks |
| Alma
Junction previously London Junction |
Called Alma Junction after
1895, closed in 1924 |
| Alma | Est. 1872, Inc. 1873 PO est. March 7, 1873 located 5 miles NW of Fairplay |
| Antelope Springs | |
| Antero | |
| Antero Junction | ghost town |
| Arthurs | |
| Badger City | gone by 1900 |
| Bailey | Est. 1864, PO est. 1878 (PO moved from Deer Valley) |
| Balfour | PO 1894-1907 |
| Bath also called Hilltop and Summit |
RR station on Trout Creek Pass Park & Chaffee county line |
| Bear Creek | listed 1896 |
| Bellford Mountain Heights | |
| Benkleys | listed 1896 |
| Black Dumps | spans Chaffee/Park border |
| Black Mountain previously Devine |
PO 1898-1911 |
| Bordenville | PO 1879-1884 |
| Boyer | |
| Buckskin/Buckskin Joe previously Laurette |
PO est June 1, 1861 disc. January
24, 1873 |
| Buffalo Springs | PO 1875-1912 |
| Cassels | PO 1899-1929 |
| Centerville | listed 1895 located 17 miles east of Fairplay 4 miles North |
| Chase previously Weller |
PO 1892-1911; RR station |
| Chile Springs | listed 1896 |
| Coal Branch Junction | |
| Como | PO est. January 23, 1879; Inc. 1883 |
| Condon | listed on map 1880 |
| Conrad | PO 1897-1905 |
| Contrite/Cortrite | PO 1889-1892 |
| Cottage Grove | listed early 1880's located between Alma & Holland |
| Dake | PO 1883-1892 |
| Deadwood | |
| Deer Valley | PO 1871-1878 |
| Devine later Black Mountain |
PO 1898-1911 |
| Doran previously Leavick |
PO 1901-1907 |
| Dudley | PO 1872-1880 |
| East Leadville | |
| Eleven Mile Village | |
| Estabrook | PO 1880-1937 |
| Eureka | |
| Fairplay 1859 "Fair Play" then became "Fairplay Diggings" then in 1861 "Platte City" then "Fairplay" until 1869, then name officially changed to "South Park City" in 1874 "Fairplay' restored. |
PO est August 2, 1862 as Fair Play Inc. 1880 |
| Fairville later Slaughts |
PO 1878-1900 |
| Flanders previously Selkirk |
|
| Flats see Sacramento |
Est. 1878 |
| Fortune Placer | |
| Freshwater now Guffy |
Inc. 1897 |
| Garo | PO 1888-1955; est. 1863 Ghost Town |
| Glenisle | |
| Glentivar | PO 1921-1955 |
| Granite Vale | PO 1861-1870 |
| Grant previously Olava |
Est. 1870 |
| Grousemont previously Kaiserheim |
PO 1914-1919 |
| Guffy previously Freshwater |
Est. 1896 |
| Guird | listed 1896 |
| Halfway | |
| Hall Valley | PO 1874-1898 |
| Hamilton | PO 1860-1881 |
| Hammond | PO 1896-1903 |
| Harris Park | |
| Hartsel | Est. 1866 |
| Haver | |
| Hayman | PO 1904-1918 |
| Highland Park | |
| Hillsdale | In existence 1871-1880's with PO |
| Hilltop Junction | located 1 mile below Fairplay easily confused with Hilltop on Trout Creek |
| Hilltop also called Bath and Summit |
RR station on Trout Creek Pas |
| Holland | PO 1884 located 3 miles downsteam from Alma |
| Holly's Ranche | noted around 1896 |
| Shoe also called Old Town |
PO 1881-1894; Inc. 1881 |
| Howbert previously Dell's Camp |
PO 1887-1933 |
| Hubbards | listed around 1896 |
| Hursley's Ranche | noted around 1896 |
| Idlewild | |
| Insomont | PO 1902-1917 |
| Jefferson City | |
| Jefferson | PO est September 3, 1861; Est. 1861; Inc 1907 |
| Kaiserheim later Grousemont |
PO 1914-1918 |
| Kenosha | PO 1891-1893 |
| King originally but briefly called Como |
PO 1884-1896 located 3 miles SE of Como |
| Lake George | Est. 1891 |
| London Junction later Alma Junction |
Est. 1882-1883 |
| Laurette see Buckskin |
Est. 1861 Park County Seat 1862-1866 |
| Leavick later Doran |
PO 1896-1899 |
| London | PO 1883-1886 |
| Lost Acres | |
| Mahoneyville | location vicinity of London Hill |
| McKinley | |
| Montgomery/Montgomery City | PO 1862-1888 located at the foot of Hoosier Pass |
| Mosquito | See Sterling |
| Mountaindale | PO 1880-1899 |
| Mudsill | Est 1892 RR station for Horseshoe |
| Mullinville | PO 1880-1882 |
| Myers later called Platte Ranch |
located north of Antero Reservoir |
| Olava | See Grant |
| Old Town | See Horseshoe |
| Park City | Est. Late 1870's located 11/2 miles west of Alma |
| Park | PO 1879-1891 located 7 miles east of Hartsel |
| Parkview | |
| Peabody's | |
| Pearts | Ranch, Stage Stop located east of Mullenville |
| Pike-San Isabel Village | |
| Platte Station briefly Platte |
PO 1876-1894; located on Weston Pass Wagon Road |
| Platte River | |
| Platte Ranch previously called Myers |
located north of Antero Reservoir |
| Puma City later called Tarryall |
PO 1896-1933; Est. 1896 |
| Quartsville/Quarts Hill | located 1 1/2 miles east of Mt. Cameron |
| Red Hill | 1879 into 1900's |
| Richards | Listed in Postal Directory, may have been only a ranch. |
| Roberts | Listed in Postal Directory
of 1896, located 3 miles above Fairplay |
| Rocky | PO 1874-1898 |
| Sacramento also known as Flats |
Est. 1878 |
| Salina | Existed around 1906-7 located southwest of Hartsel |
| Santa Maria | |
| Shawnee | Est. 1900 |
| Singleton | |
| Slaughts previously Fairville |
PO 1878-1900 |
| Snowstorm | located about 1 mile above Roberts |
| South Park | PO 1874-1879 |
| Spinney | PO 1889-1908 |
| Sterling also referred to as Mosquito |
PO 1862-1865 |
| Sulpher Springs | PO 1873-1874 |
| Summit also called Bath and Hilltop |
RR station on Trout Creek Pass |
| Surles Meadow | |
| Tarryall City | PO 1860-1863, Kansas Territory, later Park County |
| Tarryall (New) previously Puma City |
PO 1896-1933; Est. 1896 Ghost Town |
| Trump | PO 1828-1931 appeared on maps in 1930's Ghost town |
| Truro | PO 1887-1895 |
| Webster | PO est. May 7, 1877 disc. Sept 30, 1909 |
| Weller | see Chase |
| Weston | End of track town, never a
PO located 3 1/2 miles southwest of Garo |
| Will O Wisp | |
| South Park | Popular Culture: In the long-running animated television series South Park, the eponymous fictional town is situated in an unspecified part of the county |
Sources
Bayou Salado The Story of South Park, by Virginia McConnell Simmons, Copyright 1966, pub. Century One Press, Colorado Springs, CO, ISBN 0-937080-03-9
The Tarryall Mountains and the History of the Puma Hills A History, by Midge Harbour, Copyright 1982, pub. Century One Press, Colorado Springs, CO.
Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, by Sandra Dallas, Published and Copyright University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8061-1910-1.
Wikipedia, March 5, 2023 Park County, Colorado
Colorado County Evolution, Created by Don Stanwyck for the Colorado
Genealogy Web COGenWeb,
maintained by Lee Zion*, Copyright 1998 & 1999
*RIP Lee Zion - your dedication and support for COGENWEB in the early years is so valued and much appreciated.
I miss you and your wit!
--Betty
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