# Fondis

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

- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2158, -104.3472 (USGS GNIS point)
- Post office: Fondis, 1895–1954; mail later sent to Elbert

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Inland hamlet on the boundary road between school districts 20 and 26; PO Nov. 25, 1895 to July 15, 1954, mail to Elbert. A Sunday school from January 1899; a United Brethren church built in 1900; Dockum & Son, 'the pioneer merchants', sold out in 1902 to O'Neill & Moore, who also ran the Fondis cheese factory (H. A. Moore, manager).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Populated Place 193211. Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 33, T9S R62W, '11 mi E of Elbert', about three-quarters of a mile from GNIS's point.

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

## Nearby

- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 5.0 mi northeast
- [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 5.5 mi southwest
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 6.0 mi northwest
- [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 7.4 mi southwest
- [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 7.7 mi south
- [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 8.1 mi southwest

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