Pyramid Guard Station

Built in 1934 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Pyramid Guard Station, in Rio Blanco County, Colorado near Yampa, Colorado, was built in 1934. It is located off County Route 8 in Routt National Forest, between Dunckley Pass and Ripple Pass.”
Wikipedia article Pyramid Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Rio Blanco County · listed in 2008 · category: District · built in 1934, rustic architecture.

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 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 8, Yampa, 81641
When was it listed? January 2008
Category. district
Census division. Meeker
When was it built? 1934
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 07001354 - 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 Pyramid Guard Station between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,736 acres in total. 10 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2005	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	CYCLONE
1 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BALL
6 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LOST
16 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HOLDING POND
14 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SHERIF RESERVOIR
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,195 acres	Rio Blanco County	CABIN LAKE FIRE
6 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	LITTLE SMOKEY
26 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	ROUGH CREEK

Every fire recorded in Rio Blanco County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pyramid Guard Station: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Gold. 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
	Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
	Unnamed Gold Prospect	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Rio Blanco 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001354 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rio Blanco County	All 7 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.