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Photograph of Derry Mining Site Camp
Photograph by Donald J Holmgren, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Derry Mining Site Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W of US 24, Leadville, 81251
  • When was it listed? July 2000
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Leadville
  • National Register reference number. 00000782 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Derry Mining Site Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony39
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 1993Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
21 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestSOUTH ELBERT
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLILY POND
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFOREBAY
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLODGEPOLE 2
10 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSPRING CREEK
9 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSOUTH ELBERT
7 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLODGEPOLE FLATS

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Derry Mining Site Camp: 15 occurrences, 14 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Lead, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bartlett MinesLead, Aluminum, CalciumPast Producer
Kathy K MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Prospect MtnLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Smith-Bullard MineLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Tom ThumbGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
UnknownLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Edna MayGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leadville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 lightning, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998LightningLeadville2 hurt, $1,000no account filed
July 1998LightningLeadville$10,000no account filed
July 1999LightningLeadville$3,000A lightning flash struck in the front yard of a house, traveled a wire fence to the front of the house, and onto the aluminum siding. A window was broken on the house, and two tires on a car were flattened. The solar energy system of the house was also damaged.
August 1999LightningLeadville$1,000A lightning flash struck the U.S. Forest Service building, destroying the electrical box on the south side of the building.
August 2023Heavy RainLeadville-One point one inches fell in 20 minutes.
August 2007HailLeadville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hayden Ranch Headquarters1.6 miles2003
Interlaken Resort District3.2 miles1974
Twin Lakes District3.5 miles1974
Leadville National Fish Hatchery7.4 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000782 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.