# Kuhns Crossing

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/
- Also known as: Kuhn's Crossing
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2819, -104.1241 (USGS GNIS point)
- Post office: Kuhns Crossing, 1879–1920; mail later sent to Simla

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Named for Charles E. Kuhn, who took up a ranch in 1874 (obituary, 1909); 'On East Bijou Creek' (Crofutt 1881); in 1885 Kuhn and partners had 5,000 acres under fence and controlled 50,000 of public land. The X K ranch went to the Bijou Ranch Co. in 1900, and its 35,000 deeded acres to a Kansas City syndicate in 1906 for farms; steam plows by 1909. PO 1879-1920, mail to Simla.

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 185154. Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 8, T9S R60W, '18 mi W of River Bend', within half a mile of GNIS's point; a post route 'From River Bend to Kuhn's Crossing' was set up in 1879.

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

## Nearby

- [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 5.9 mi west
- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 9.2 mi west
- [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 9.9 mi south
- [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 11.0 mi southeast
- [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 11.2 mi south
- [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 11.3 mi south

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