Barton Nebraska

Former station · Deuel County · station by 1882

About Barton

Barton is a former Union Pacific station in the South Platte valley in Deuel County, about 5½ miles west-southwest of Big Springs and 6 miles northeast of Julesburg, Colorado, and about 2 miles north of the Colorado line. US 138 follows the railroad past the site; I-80 exit 101 is less than half a mile away and the I-76 split about a mile east.

History

Barton was a station on the Union Pacific main line by 1882, in Big Springs precinct. The 1925 Nebraska Place-Names says it was apparently named for a local resident; a later edition names Guy C. Barton of North Platte. It never had its own post office: the 1917 gazetteer listed Barton as a station 6 miles northeast of Julesburg, its banking point and post office. It appears on the 1912 county map, and no station buildings are known to survive.

Things to see

Goldeneye WMA, about 2½ mi east · Big Springs, with the Phelps Hotel and the depot museum