Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Crawford House is a building in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its importance as the primary residence for 36 years of James Harvey Crawford, the Father of Steamboat Springs, and his wife, Margaret Emerine (Bourn) Crawford, the Mother of Routt County. The two of them together were among the most influential pioneering families in northwest Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Crawford House (Steamboat Springs, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000782- 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
54 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Crawford House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 11 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
21
Recreation and ceremony
12
Natural
11
Smoking
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Debris and open burning
2
Fireworks
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 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Steamboat Springs Fire Department
UNKNOWN
3 September 2016
Natural
under an acre
Steamboat Springs Fire Department
UNKNOWN
29 September 2015
Smoking
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
FROLF
28 September 1998
Natural
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
SODA CREEK
24 September 1998
Debris and open burning
15 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
PIONEER
20 September 2003
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
RAWS
18 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Steamboat Springs Fire Department
UNKNOWN
18 September 2016
Smoking
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
21 workings within 5 miles of Crawford House: 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Geothermal, Copper. 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
Steamboat Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado.
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.
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
6 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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