# Spring Valley

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/
- Also known as: Gile's station; the Spring Valley Fort
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1522, -104.7708 (from a cited description (about half a mile))
- Post office: Spring Valley, 1865–1885

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

First settled July 10, 1860 (Crofutt); PO March 27, 1865 at G. W. Redman's (SW1/4 Sec. 27), kept by J. F. Gile in 1877, moved to Jacob Geiger's in May 1885, closed July 1885. Divide Grange No. 53 met at the schoolhouse. Cemetery a mile north (39.159, -104.768). Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 1 is the Pratt farm, not Spring Valley.

## Where it was

1994 GPS readings of the store foundation (Larkspur binder, Spring Valley Book 1 p. 168), W1/2 NW, Sec. 27, T10S R66W, 40 m from GNIS's Spring Valley School. The 1877 post office site report puts the office in the NE1/4 of the same section (see 'Gile's ranch').

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

## Nearby

- [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.3 mi south
- [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi north
- [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.6 mi east
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 1.0 mi northeast
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.3 mi east
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.5 mi southeast

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