Columbine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Columbine, or the Columbine Gold Camp, is a former gold mining community in Routt County, Colorado, United States. Now it is an unincorporated community, historic district, and a rental cabin resort.”
Wikipedia article Columbine, Routt County, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 645 Routt County Rd. 129, Clark, 80428
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. district
Census division. Steamboat Springs
National Register reference number. 07000791 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Columbine between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 9 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NIPPLE
2 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	GROUSE
7 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	TWIN MOUNTAIN
5 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	486
3 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
27 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WILLOW LAKE
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Routt Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
24 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	FLOYD CREEK

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Columbine: 45 occurrences, 11 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
7d Tunnel	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Farwell Mtn.	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Hahns Peak District	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum	Prospect	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Royal Flush Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Success	Uranium	Occurrence
Tom Thumb Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Unknown	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Occurrence
Campbell Tunnel and Shaft	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver	Occurrence
Colo. Mining Co.	Copper, Molybdenum	Occurrence
Emancipation Group	Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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
May 2023	Debris Flow	Clark	-	A large mudslide occurred as a result of rapid snowmelt on County Road 129 south of Clark near Fetcher Ranch.
May 2023	Flood	Clark	-	Seedhouse Road in Routt County northeast of Clark was closed between mile markers 3 and 5 as a result of flooding.
June 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Clark	-	A relatively high-elevation tornado in the Routt National Forest was observed by numerous individuals in Routt County. The rotational winds reached the ground initially near the 8900 foot level. Although the rotational winds were on the ground for no more than a couple of minutes, the associated condensation funnel existed for about 10 minutes. A debris cloud which indicated wind rotation on the ground was observed by some eyewitnesses who photographed the tornado.
August 2009	Hail	Clark	-	Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter pummeled a forested area southeast of Steamboat Lake.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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

2 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
	Summit Creek Ranger Station	1.8 miles	2004
	Hahns Peak Schoolhouse	3.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Routt County	All 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.