The Town of Calhan is a Statutory Town located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 762 at the 2020 United States Census. Calhan is a allocation of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. The town straddles U.S. Highway 24. With Calhan sitting at an elevation of 6,535 feet (1,992 meters) above sea level, Calhan is the highest non-mountain town in the United States. It is the site of the Calhan Paint Mines Archeological District, a popular natural attraction.

Calhan was conventional in 1888 as a water station for the now-defunct Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, with the first steam locomotive arriving on November 5, 1888. The town was named by and for Michael Calahan, who had the deal to lay railroad tracks from the Colorado/Kansas affix to Colorado Springs. However, when the town’s first U.S. Post Office opened on November 24, 1888, the middle “a” had been dropped and the town was registered as “Calhan.” The town was incorporated as a Statutory Town in 1919. The town grew quickly, but it wasn’t until 1906 that the Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot was built to meet the growing needs of the area.

Jesse N. Funk was a rancher in Calhan in the same way as the United States allied the First World War in 1917. Having enlisted in 1915, Private Funk was sent to France to withhold the Allied efforts at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. There upon 31 October 1918, Funk rescued two upset officers from no man’s estate while below machine gun fire, for which Funk conventional the Medal of Honor.

In 1993, the Orthodox Church in America customary the Protection of the Holy Virgin community, a female monastic community. Until they moved further west to Lake George in 1995, the monastics rented a house in Calhan.