Silesca Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 2005 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest, Grand Mesa, 81425
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Census division. Montrose
National Register reference number. 04001464 - 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Silesca Ranger Station between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 10 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	TRANSFER
30 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	STUMP
27 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	not named
25 August 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MOJO
24 August 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	SILESCA
21 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	DIVIDE FIRE
16 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	TRANSFER EAST
15 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	IRON SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Silesca Ranger Station: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium. 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
	Evening Star Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1950

Every working recorded in Montrose 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 04001464 in Record Group 79.
Montrose County	All 28 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.