Wetmore Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 2008 · 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 3 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 682 Co. Rd. 395, Wetmore, 81253
When was it listed? September 2008
Category. building
Census division. Westcliffe
National Register reference number. 08000860 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Wetmore Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,081 acres in total. 25 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FARLEY
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Wetmore Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
2 September 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	HOLT MTN
28 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	MASON GUL
28 August 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	YMCA MTN
23 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	LUIS CREEK 6
23 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Wetmore Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
23 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wet Mountain Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wetmore Post Office: 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Uranium, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Airborne Anomaly 18	Uranium	Occurrence
Colorado Zinc Company Mine	Lead, Zinc	Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Lawson Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this property

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wetmore, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 14 flash flood, 12 heavy rain, 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2024	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Trained spotter reported heavy rain from a thunderstorm, which produced 0.90 inches of rainfall over a short duration.
May 2023	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	There was 1.5 inches of rain that fell.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.1 inches.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall of 2.00 inches.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Extensive road damage was observed. A 7 foot wall of water developed due to a culvert plugging up. County roads 271, 261, and 265 all remained closed throughout the night.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.40 inches.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.50 inches.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.20 inches.
May 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Spotter indicated it was a combination of rain and snow, 1.00 inches 2 miles south southwest of Wetmore.
May 2021	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Heavy rain of 3.75 inches, 2 miles south southwest Wetmore.
August 2020	Debris Flow	Wetmore	-	Colorado State Patrol has closed Highway 96, from Highway 165 to Highway 67 due to rock and mudslides.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Spotter reported over 1.5 inches of rain fell within an hour.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Local FD reported that Hardscrabble Creek came out of its banks. Also, multiple rock and mudslides across US Hwy 96, shutting the road down.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Highway 96 is closed between CO 165 and Smith Creek road for debris flows.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	Spotter measured 1.7 inches of rain.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Trained spotter reported heavy rain producing minor street flooding and also causing rock slides across us hwy 96.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Heavy rainfall over the Junkins burn scar caused flash flooding and debris flows across Highway 384, 6 miles south of Wetmore, CO.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	A sheriff reported washouts over County Road 387, downstream of the Junkins Burn Scar in Custer County.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	A thunderstorm's interaction with the Junkins Burn Scar caused flash flooding over Highway 165 in Custer County.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Emergency Management reported a flash flooding from hardscrabble creek near Greenwood causing water to flow over County Road 96.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	A trained spotter reported flash flooding from the Junkins Burn Scar over County Roads 386 and 389.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	County Road 387 was briefly closed due to debris on the road in eight different areas.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flash flooding on the Mason Gulch Burn Scar in northeastern Custer County.
May 2020	Heavy Rain	Wetmore	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
July 2006	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	no account filed
July 2005	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Wetmore	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wetmore	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Wetmore	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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 08000860 in Record Group 79.
Custer County	All 10 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.