Cayton Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Cayton Guard Station or Cayton Ranger Station, in White River National Forest about 18 miles (29 km) south of Silt, Colorado, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Cayton Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 2005 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Service Road 814.1, Silt, 81624
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Census division. Collbran
National Register reference number. 05000335 - 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 Cayton Guard Station between 1994 and 2018, burning about 38 acres in total. 8 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	White River National Forest	WILLOW
5 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	HAYSTACK MTN
4 September 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	White River National Forest	CAMP CREEK
15 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	ALKALI COW CAMP
5 July 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	White River National Forest	BEAR GULCH
24 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	DIVIDE CREEK
21 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	CAMP CREEK
18 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BOB

Every fire recorded in Mesa 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 Cayton Guard Station: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum. 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
	Morelock Mine	Molybdenum	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mesa 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 05000335 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.