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Photograph of Aultman House
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Aultman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Aultman House, at 711 Colorado Ave. in Trinidad, Colorado, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”

Wikipedia article Aultman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2007 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 711 Colorado Ave., Trinidad, 81082
  • When was it listed? July 2007
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Trinidad
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 07000673 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Aultman House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined61
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
27 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersTRINIDAD
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFishers Peak Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFishers Peak Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
11 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Aultman House: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Leone Sand and GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ClaypitClayPast Producer
ClaypitClayPast Producer
New Mary MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this property

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinidad, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 62 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTrinidad3 hurt, $500Thunderstorm winds blew over a tent of a fireworks display in Trinidad and scattered the fireworks. Three people were slightly injured when the tent fell onto them.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Trinidad1 hurt, $5,000A large tornado occurred over mostly open country damaging some fencing, toppling trees, and damaging one outbuilding. One person was injured.
June 2002WildfireTrinidad$50,000no account filed
June 2025HailTrinidad-Hail up to 2 inches in diameter fell in Las Animas County from severe thunderstorms.
August 2025HailTrinidad-Hail measured to 1.5 inches fell in western Las Animas County.
September 2025HailTrinidad-Hail up to 1 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
September 2025HailTrinidad-Hail up to 1.5 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
July 2023HailTrinidad-Reported from MPing.
July 2023HailTrinidad-Reported from MPing.
July 2023HailTrinidad-Reported from MPing.
July 2023HailTrinidad-Reported from MPing.
July 2023HailTrinidad-Reported form MPing.
July 2022HailTrinidad-Report of a mix of quarter to golf ball size hail in the northern part of Trinidad, just east of Interstate 25.
June 2022HailTrinidad-Report of hail up to quarter-size on the north side of Trinidad with earlier severe thunderstorm.
August 2021Heavy RainTrinidad-Heavy rainfall of 2.90 inches.
August 2021Heavy RainTrinidad-Heavy rainfall of 3.62 inches.
May 2021Flash FloodTrinidad-Numerous reports of flooding in Trinidad with several county roads washed out or partially washed out. Purgatoire river went out of its banks along Highway 12 west of Trinidad.
June 2020Heavy RainTrinidad-Delayed report from social media. Also, reported street flooding in Trinidad that occurred overnight. Heavy rain, 3.00 inches.
June 2016HailTrinidad-Very large hail caused extensive damage in Trinidad. No dollar amount of damage was available from the insurance industry at this time.
May 2005HailTrinidad-Hail caused some broken windows.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Trinidad-A small, weak tornado caused no known damage.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Trinidad-A fourth small, weak, short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Trinidad-A small, weak tornado caused no known damage.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Trinidad-A tornado was on the ground in open country and caused no known damage.
July 2023HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2022HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2021HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2020HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2016HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2016HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2015HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2014HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2014HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2014HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2014HailTrinidad-no account filed
September 2012HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2010HailTrinidad-no account filed
July 2010HailTrinidad-no account filed
August 2009HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2007HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2007HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindTrinidad-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindTrinidad-no account filed
June 2006HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
May 2005HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2004HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2004HailTrinidad-no account filed
June 2004HailTrinidad-no account filed
August 2004HailTrinidad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Frank Latuda House0.2 miles2010
Zion's German Lutheran Church0.2 miles2006
First Methodist Episcopal Church0.3 miles2005
Charles Emerick House0.5 miles2014
First Baptist Church0.5 miles2000
McCormick House0.5 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000673 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas CountyAll 26 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.
  • 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.