Bijou Basin, Colorado
Early El Paso County Colorado map. Bijou Basin was five miles southeast of Sidney in northeastern El Paso County
Bijou Basin was a settlement in northern El Paso County, Colorado near Elbert County, Colorado, where there was a train station. Travelers could also take post road 49.[1] It was located five miles southeast of another early settlement, Sidney.[2]
A rural post office was established at Bijou Basin in 1869.[2] Settlers established sheep and cattle ranches.[1] The post office closed in 1907.[2]
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- ^ a b George A. Crofutt (1885). Crofutt's Grip-sack Guide of Colorado: A Complete Encyclopedia of the State. Overland Publishing Company. p. 72.
- ^ a b c "Place Names of Colorado" (PDF). Denver Public Library. p. 68. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
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