# Claud

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.4573, -104.128 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Claud, 1882–1888

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1882-1888, ten miles south of Deer Trail.

## Where it was

'Claud 1882': 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. 5, T7S R60W, 'Rural Post Office 1882-1888. 10 mi S of Deer Trail.'; this point is 0.86 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

- [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 9.9 mi east
- [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 12.1 mi south
- [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 12.2 mi southwest
- [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 12.2 mi west
- [Wolfcreek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/): 15.1 mi northwest
- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 15.3 mi southwest

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