# Franceville coal mine

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/

- Kind: Mines and quarries
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.8064, -104.5969 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Matt France discovered the lignite beds six to fourteen feet down (Hall, 1891); in May 1882 a News correspondent called Franceville 'the center of the great coal fields' along the new D&NO (S-0078).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Mine 193545. 'Franceville is a coal mining town in the eastern part of El Paso, named in honor of Honorable Matt France of Colorado Springs' (Hall, 1891); a D&NO spur 'ran east to Franceville, named for landowner Matthew France' (von Ahlefeldt p. 51).

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

## Nearby

- [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 0.1 mi east
- [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 4.3 mi northwest
- [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 4.9 mi northwest
- [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 4.9 mi northwest
- [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 8.8 mi north
- [Kelker](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kelker/): 10.0 mi west

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