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.
Sources
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.