# Pine Cone Ranch

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/
- Also known as: K.K. Ranch
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0453, -104.6539 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Black Forest ranch at 13985 Vollmer Road with a log cabin, barn and stables photographed in the 1976 county survey (photo B18); Judy von Ahlefeldt's maps label the 'K.K. Ranch' here. It was the headquarters of the 6,000-acre KK Ranch, assembled by the Kountze brothers in the 1880s and run by the Kirk twins; the house and barns date from the early 1890s. An 1894 dam on West Kiowa Creek made a 17-acre lake for Eastonville picnics; it failed in the 1935 flood and sent water through Elbert. The ranch kept a commissary for timber workers (Ellett p. 7). Later it was the Hock family's 'Tannenbaum' (from 1936) and the Win-Del ranch (1945-50) (von Ahlefeldt pp. 72, 90, 93).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 193288

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

## Nearby

- [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 2.6 mi southwest
- [Brentwood Country Club gateway](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/): 2.6 mi southwest
- [Fairview School and Evans stage stop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/): 2.7 mi northwest
- [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 2.7 mi northwest
- [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 2.7 mi southwest
- [Dreamland Country Club](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/): 2.8 mi west

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