# Glade

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/
- Also known as: Glade switch; Glade school (District No. 25)
- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2967, -104.8767 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

D&RG station and sidetrack; 'Principally stock-raising. The surrounding country is timbered and bluffy' (Crofutt 1881). Glade School District No. 25: a school in the Glade district by 1883; a new schoolhouse built by John Harris in summer 1893. George Upton ground grain and kept a blacksmith shop 'at his ranche opposite Glade switch'; the Glade Nursery sold seed potatoes; the Santa Fe built a switch at Glade (about 1902) for a fire-clay deposit southwest of J. D. Wilson's home (Castle Rock Journal items, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 pp. 384, 401-402). Tomah, on the Santa Fe, is under a mile northwest.

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 3, T9S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR stop on D&RGW. 4 mi N of Larkspur'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. 'Glade, a sidetrack about five miles south of Castle Rock' (Castle Rock Journal, as copied in the Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 384); 'thirty-eight miles south from Denver' (Crofutt 1881), five more than Castle Rock's 33 (1875 directory). The section center is 5.2 miles south of downtown Castle Rock.

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

## Nearby

- [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 0.8 mi northwest
- [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 2.1 mi southwest
- [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 2.2 mi southwest
- [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 2.6 mi south
- [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 2.7 mi south
- [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 3.0 mi north

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