BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Crested Butte Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 716 Elk Ave., Crested Butte, 81224
- When was it listed? May 2001
- Category. building
- Census division. Crested Butte
- National Register reference number. 01000444 - 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
30 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Crested Butte Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot between 1993 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Crested Butte Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WASHINGTON |
| 23 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | CRESTED BUTTE |
| 22 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WHETSTONE MTN. |
| 20 September 2019 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WHETSTONE |
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | RED LADY |
| 30 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | GOTHIC |
| 29 August 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | SLATE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Crested Butte Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot: 9 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crested Butte | Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Daisy | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gunnison County Mines Rpr | Gold, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Jimmy, Keystone, Contact, Eclipse, My Boys, Union | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Keystone | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Producer | ||
| Keystone Mine | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Keystone Mine | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Micawber | Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Producer | Copper, Lead, Silver | |
| Mt. Emmons/Crested Butte | Molybdenum, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | 1976 |
Storms near this property
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crested Butte, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crested Butte | $50 | Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a garage in Eckert (38 miles southeast of Grand Junction), and blew shingles off roofs and knocked down trees in Crested Butte (24 miles south southwest of Aspen). |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Town of Crested Butte | 0.2 miles | 1974 |
| Town of Crested Butte (Boundary Increase and Boundary Decrease) | 0.4 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000444 in Record Group 79. |
| Gunnison County | All 21 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.