Hog Park Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Hog Park Guard Station, in Routt National Forest in Jackson County, Colorado about 35 miles (56 km) west of Cowdrey, Colorado, was built during 1910 to 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Hog Park Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Routt National Forest, Cowdry, 80480
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
Census division. Walden
National Register reference number. 03000960 - 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

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hog Park Guard Station between 1995 and 2020, burning about 30,775 acres in total. 17 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
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
6 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	FARREL DOG
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NO ELK
15 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	28,584 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	RYAN
30 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry (CPC Area)	DUDLEY CREEK
25 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DUDLEY FIRE
23 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LAKEVIEW
22 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DAMFINO
22 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DUDLEY

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hog Park Guard Station: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: PGE, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Lead. 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
Broadway Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, PGE	Past Producer	1904
Unknown	Lead, Silver	Prospect
Jesse Prospect	Copper	Prospect	1902
Peak 9731	PGE	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jackson 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 03000960 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 3 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.