# Wolfcreek

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/

- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.5631, -104.3751 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))
- Post office: Wolfcreek, 1910–1919; Wolf Creek, 1910–1919

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Post office 1910-1919, northeast of Kiowa.

## Where it was

'Wolfcreek 1910': 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. 6, T6S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1910-1919. 15 mi NE of Kiowa.'; this point is 0.43 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.

## Nearby

- [Hungate site (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hungate-site-1864/): 8.6 mi west
- [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 9.8 mi south
- [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 14.1 mi southwest
- [Claud](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/): 15.1 mi southeast
- [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 15.5 mi south
- [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 15.7 mi south

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