Palmer Divide Research

Norton

Post offices and stage stationsHistoric or vanishedElbert County

What we know

Post office 1899-1915, southeast of Kiowa; Scott adds '(Stoller)'.

Where it was

'Norton 1898': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 4, T9S R61W, 'Rural Post Office 1899-1915. 12 mi SE of Kiowa.'; this point is 0.5 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

See it on the map

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.

Know more about Norton?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.