Summit Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Cty Rd. 129, Columbine, 80428
When was it listed? July 2004
Category. building
Census division. Steamboat Springs
National Register reference number. 04000735 - 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Summit Creek Ranger Station between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NIPPLE
7 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	TWIN MOUNTAIN
6 August 2000	Natural	1.5 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LITTLE SNAKE
5 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	486
3 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
27 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WILLOW LAKE
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Routt Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
11 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LOPEZ

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Summit Creek Ranger Station: 34 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
7d Tunnel	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Campbell Tunnel and Shaft	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver	Occurrence
Hahns Peak District	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum	Prospect	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Royal Flush Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Success	Uranium	Occurrence
Tom Thumb Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Unknown	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Occurrence
Beryl Mountain	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Occurrence
Oro Cache	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Occurrence
Price Tunnel	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbine, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2008	Flood	Columbine	$15,000	Snowmelt runoff caused some streams and creeks to exceed bankfull. Culverts were overwhelmed in areas and portions of roads were damaged. In some cases, minor flooding and road damage occurred due to snowmelt water that cascaded off slopes above roads. Water 6 to 8 inches deep flowed across some roads. The force of the water caused a section of road between the Elk River Guest Ranch and Vista Verde Guest Ranch to slough off. The damaged road section was about 20 feet wide and plunged 12 to 14 feet down.
June 2011	Flood	Columbine	-	Rapid snow melt from a record snow pack over the Northern Colorado mountains allowed many waterways across Routt County to experience increased flows through the entire month of June. Areal flood advisories and warnings were in place to cover numerous small creeks and rivers that met or exceeded bankfull conditions. Flood advisories and warnings were also issued for site specific portions of the Elk River through the the month with the highest flows during the first half of the month and a second peak during the last few days of the month which continued into July. Preliminary data form the USGS shows historical volume and peak flow records were surpassed on this river near Milner. Significant low land flooding was reported across Routt County with some businesses and residences requiring sand bags to keep out flood waters. In rural areas, equipment and animals had to be evacuated by the encroaching water. Many local roads were also impacted with 6 to 12 inches of water being reported over the roadways.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
	Columbine	1.8 miles	2007
	Hahns Peak Schoolhouse	5.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000735 in Record Group 79.
Routt 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.