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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Herbert and Edith Crissey House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Crissey, Herbert and Edith, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 218 W. 1st St., Palisade, 81526
- When was it listed? May 2003
- Category. building
- Census division. Clifton
- National Register reference number. 03000402 - 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
151 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Herbert and Edith Crissey House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 824 acres in total. 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | DEBEQUE |
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | CACTUS FIRE |
| 29 September 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | HORSE MTN |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Clifton Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 14 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | HORSE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Herbert and Edith Crissey House: 12 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gearhart Mt Garfield | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Midwest | Uranium, Vanadium | Unknown | ||
| Mount Lincoln | Uranium, Vanadium | Unknown | ||
| Blue Flame | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Farmers Mine | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Garfield | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Go Boy Mine | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Midwest Red Arrow | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Mt Lincoln | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Mine | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this property
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palisade, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Flash Flood | Palisade | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Debris Flow | Palisade | $10,000 | A debris flow occurred along Interstate 70 between mile markers 42 and 47 as a result of heavy rains. The road was closed for a couple of hours due to cleanup operations. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Palisade | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Dust Devil | Palisade | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Palisade | - | Nickel size hail was reported 2 miles west of Palisade in Mesa County. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Palisade. |
| November 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Palisade | - | A funnel cloud was observed northeast of Grand Junction by NWS employees and numerous members of the public. The funnel lasted approximately 15 minutes before dissipating. |
| October 2018 | Hail | Palisade | - | Quarter-sized hail fell in Palisade. |
| July 2013 | Debris Flow | Palisade | - | Westbound Interstate 70 was closed for several hours near mile marker 46 due to a mudslide. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Palisade | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide next to I-70 at Exit 42. The heavy rainfall also caused the fall of several large boulders onto the westbound lanes of I-70 near mile marker 43. The boulders, which weighed up to a thousand pounds, closed the westbound lanes of I-70 for about an hour until they were all removed. |
| October 2006 | Heavy Rain | Palisade | - | Runoff from heavy rain caused 2 inches of water to flow across Rapid Creek Road which leads to the on-ramp of Interstate 70. Runoff also left 1 inch of mud across Highway 330 between Mile Marker 2 and 3. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Palisade | - | A thunderstorm dropped marble-size hail near Palisade (8 miles east of Grand Junction), destroying peach and pear crops of several growers. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Flood | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Heavy Rain | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Clifton Community Center and Church | 5.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Kettle-Jens House | 6.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Grand Valley Diversion Dam | 6.5 miles | 1991 |
 | Cross Land and Fruit Company Orchards and Ranch | 7.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000402 in Record Group 79. |
| Mesa County | All 33 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.