Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Anderson Barn near Johnstown in Weld County, Colorado, also known as the Carlson Barn, is a gambrel-roofed ornamental block building built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Anderson Barn (Johnstown, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1913.
Also known as. Ornamental Concrete Block Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Johnstown-Milliken
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number.04001112- 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
209 since 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Anderson Barn
between 2010 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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
175
Debris and open burning
9
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Natural
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Anderson Barn: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Johnstown, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 31 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Flash flooding forced numerous road closures in and around Milliken and Platteville. Water, up to 3 ft deep, was observed at Division Rd and State Highway 66. State Highway 60 and Forest Rd were also closed due to floodwaters.
A small tornado touched down a turned some empty fertilizer tanks on their sides at a fertilizer plant. Three storage sheds were also destroyed. The twister also damaged a trailer.
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
5 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.
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.
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