# Clermont

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

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1539, -104.6316 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Clermont, 1881–1883; mail later sent to Elbert

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1881-1883, mail to Elbert, on the D&NO line south of Elbert; Scott dates it 1881.

## Where it was

'Clermont 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. 25, T10S R65W, 'Site 2. Rural Post Office 1881-1883. 6 mi W of Sidney. 9 mi SW of Elbert.'; this point is 0.82 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

- [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 3.4 mi southwest
- [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 3.7 mi southeast
- [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 3.8 mi southwest
- [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 3.8 mi southwest
- [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 5.1 mi east
- [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 5.1 mi west

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