BlockFrom the record
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- Address. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Crawford, 81415
- When was it listed? September 2005
- Category. district
- Census division. Olathe
- National Register reference number. 05001181 - 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
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. 20 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 | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | ASHES |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | DRAGON |
| 21 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BOSTWICK P |
| 14 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BOSTWICK PARK |
| 12 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | DRAGON |
| 12 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BOSTWICK |
| 1 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | WARNERCAMP |
| 8 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | QUICKOUT |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park: 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorspar | |
| Unknown | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fluorine-Fluorite | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gunnison Tunnel | 4.7 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001181 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.