EM Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The EM Ranch is a site of springs that was homesteaded and became a hay, cattle and sheep ranch in Park County, Colorado, United States, near Harstel. Established in 1874, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article EM Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Cty Rd. 439, Hartsel, 80449
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. district
Also known as. Ranching Resources of South Park, Colorado MPS
Census division. Fairplay
National Register reference number. 02001142 - 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

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of EM Ranch between 2011 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hartsel Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HARTSEL
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HARTSEL
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HARTSEL
12 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HARTSEL
19 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hartsel Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
10 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HARTSEL
4 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Park County	FITZSIMMONS ROAD

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of EM Ranch: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Radium, Uranium, Copper, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Garo Deposit	Vanadium, Radium, Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	1903, 1919
Garo Prospect	Vanadium	Past Producer
Hartsel Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Shirley May Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	1903, 1919
South Park Mining Co	Zeolites, Magnesite	Past Producer
Unknown	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Duvall Discovery	Uranium	Unknown
Muley Gulch Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	1955

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartsel, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2021	Flash Flood	Hartsel	$5,000	Heavy rain near Weston Pass caused localized flash flooding along State Highway 9 in southern Park County. An SUV got stuck in the flood waters but no injuries were reported.
July 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Hartsel	-	A tornado touched down in open country. No damage as reported.
June 2016	Hail	Hartsel	-	Large hail punched holes in a greenhouse roof and shredded a patio tent.
June 2016	Hail	Hartsel	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Hartsel	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Hartsel	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Hartsel	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Hartsel	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Hartsel	-	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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Guiraud-McDowell Ranch	4.9 miles	2016
	Buckley Ranch	6.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001142 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park 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.
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.