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Photograph of Wahl Ranch
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wahl Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. US 285 and Lost Park Rd., Jefferson, 80456
  • When was it listed? October 2000
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Fairplay
  • National Register reference number. 00001194 - 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Wahl Ranch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Firearms and explosives use1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestJEFFERSON 2
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestJEFFERSON CREEK
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKENOSHA
9 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCOLORADO TRAIL
3 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestOHLER
27 August 2007Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestDEAD MAN
23 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWEBSTER

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wahl Ranch: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, Gold. 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
Stoll PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Tedco ClaimsUranium, VanadiumProspect1956
Gem Dandy ProspectUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1950, 1971
Mac George ProspectUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1956
Donna LouFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Donna Lou, GuernseyFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Jim Dandy No. 1UraniumUnknown
UnknownFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 2021HailJefferson-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJefferson-no account filed
April 2006HailJefferson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Jefferson Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Depot1.2 miles1998
Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex7.5 miles1983
Como Cemetery7.6 miles2017
Como School7.7 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001194 in Record Group 79.
Park CountyAll 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.
  • 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.