# Big Sandy

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0857, -104.2897 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Big Sandy, 1876–1888

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1876-1877 and 1882-1888 on Big Sandy Creek; Scott labels it 'Big Sandy 1876 (Later Calhan 1881)', so it is Calhan's predecessor.

## Where it was

'Big Sandy 1876 (later Calhan 1881)': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 13, T11S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1876-1877 & 1882-1888. 30 mi SE of Elbert.'; this point is 0.53 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 1.9 mi north
- [Calhan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/): 3.5 mi south
- [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 4.8 mi south
- [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 7.0 mi east
- [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 7.1 mi east
- [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 7.1 mi east

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