# Bucks Place

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/
- Also known as: Harrison Bucks homestead
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1589, -104.7491 (from a cited description (about half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Harrison Bucks, Civil War veteran and freighter, patented the 'Bucks Place' in 1878 and helped build the Spring Valley School; Bucks Mountain was added in 1885.

## Where it was

Centroid of the patented forties (S1/2 SW1/4 Sec. 23 and NW1/4 NE1/4 and NE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 26, T10S R66W) per the landmark nomination's footnote citing BLM COCOAA 074025 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 128).

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

## Nearby

- [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.7 mi southwest
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.9 mi northwest
- [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 1.0 mi west
- [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 1.3 mi west
- [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 1.3 mi southwest
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.2 mi south

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