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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rourke Ranch Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- Address. Comanche National Grassland, La Junta, 81059
- When was it listed? September 2000
- Category. district
- Census division. Model
- National Register reference number. 00001047 - 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
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Rourke Ranch Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,771 acres in total. 18 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1994 | Natural | 142 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | IN PURGATOIRE |
| 25 August 1992 | Natural | 20 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 16 August 2005 | Natural | 820 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BEATY CANYON |
| 15 August 2000 | Natural | 40 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ROURKE |
| 6 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MINNIE CANYON 1 |
| 25 July 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ELLIOT |
| 7 June 2011 | Natural | 9,089 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | CALLIE MARIE |
| 7 June 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BRAVO CANYON |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001047 in Record Group 79. |
| Las Animas County | All 26 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.