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Crown Hill Burial Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 7777 W. 29th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 80033
  • When was it listed? July 2008
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Northeast Jefferson
  • National Register reference number. 08000708 - 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

1,564 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,564 fires within 5 miles of Crown Hill Burial Park between 2003 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined1336
Equipment and vehicle use47
Smoking40
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony27
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Fireworks17
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersARVADA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Crown Hill Burial Park: 17 past producers, 10 occurrences, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Sodium. 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
Rio Grande PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer1973
Rodger Steele ClaimUraniumProspect
Soda Lakes, Soda SpringsSodiumProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lakewood PlantClayProducer
Strainland MineClayProducer
Cooley Gravel Co. PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1951, 1964
Swadley PlacersGoldPast Producer1858, 1859
Youngfield PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1979
Allied Dirt Div Green Mtn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheat Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023LightningWheat Ridge$25,000Lightning damaged a home in Wheat Ridge.
July 2025HailWheat Ridge-Report from mping.
August 1998Flash FloodWheat Ridge-Heavy rain caused flooding and flash flooding problems over southwest portions of Metropolitan Denver. An observer in Lakewood recorded 3.26 inches of rainfall in one hour. Several streets were flooded in central Lakewood. In addition, a trailer park along Lena Gulch in Wheat Ridge was evacuated due to the highwaters.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWheat Ridge-A dry microburst produced an estimated 60 mph (53 kt) wind gust in Wheat Ridge.
May 1995HailWheat Ridge-Severe thunderstorms rumbled across the Denver Metropolitan area dropping mainly pea- to marble sized-hail. Wheat Ridge received hail stones up to 1.25 inches in diameter. Hail piled up to two inches deep in Wheat Ridge and Northwest Denver.
June 2023HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
June 2023HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
July 2019HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
May 2017HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
June 2006HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
August 2004HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
May 2001HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
May 2001HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
May 2001HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
July 2001HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
June 1999HailWheat Ridge-no account filed
October 1994HailWheat Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Tower of Memories0.4 miles1987
Jewish Consuptives' Relief Society1.5 miles1980
Richards Mansion1.5 miles1977
Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner1.6 miles1997
Fruitdale Grade School2.2 miles2013
James H. Baugh House2.5 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000708 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson CountyAll 83 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.