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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Rio Grande County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad South Fork Water Tank
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. US-160, South Fork, 81154
- When was it listed? October 2002
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
- Census division. Del Norte
- National Register reference number. 02001132 - 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 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Denver & Rio Grande Railroad South Fork Water Tank between 1993 and 2019, burning about 9,336 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 were 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | WILLOW |
| 12 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | WILLOW PARK |
| 1 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | MILLION SPOT |
| 5 August 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Rio Grande National Forest | SHAW MESA |
| 20 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | TROUT |
| 17 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | LOST LAKE 2 |
| 13 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | CHURCH CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Denver & Rio Grande Railroad South Fork Water Tank: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Fork, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Wildfire | South Fork | $11,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | South Fork | $11,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | South Fork | $5,000 | A spotter reported marble-size hail caused damage to homes east of South Fork (38 miles west northwest of Alamosa), and stripped leaves off of trees. |
| October 2022 | Heavy Rain | South Fork | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.17 inches. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | South Fork | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Beaver Creek road...Mill Creek road and some secondary roads to be closed due to water. Mud and debris flowed across the roads inundated drainage ditches in and near the Million Burn scar. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | South Fork | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Beaver Creek road...Escondida road and Skyline road to close due to high water and mud and ash flows. |
| July 2012 | Hail | South Fork | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | South Fork | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | South Fork | - | no account filed |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Spruce Lodge | 0.1 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02001132 in Record Group 79. |
| Rio Grande County | All 13 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.