Howard Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Alamosa County · listed in 2006 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8681 Main St., Hooper, 81136
When was it listed? February 2006
Category. building
Census division. Mosca-Hooper
National Register reference number. 05001597 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Howard Store between 1992 and 2010, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
24 April 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named
21 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named
15 April 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
15 April 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named
6 March 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Saguache County	not named
31 March 2002	Natural	9.0 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	MCKINNEY GULCH
2 March 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named
23 February 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Saguache County	not named

Every fire recorded in Alamosa County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooper, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2007	Lightning	Hooper	$2,000	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Hooper	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Hooper	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Hooper	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alamosa 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Trujillo Homestead	7.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001597 in Record Group 79.
Alamosa County	All 16 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.
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.