Creede Branch, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Rio Grande County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along the D&RGW right-of-way bet. South Fork and Creede, South Fork, 81130
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. district
Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
National Register reference number. 02001408 - 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.

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Rio Grande 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001408 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.
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.