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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
North Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- Address. Longview, Foxton, Argyle and Pine Grove Expansions, Pine and South Platte, 80470
- When was it listed? October 2008
- Category. district
- Census division. South Jefferson
- National Register reference number. 08000861 - 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
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,755 acres in total. 84 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 87 |
| Natural | 84 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | SANDY |
| 5 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | 538 |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 29 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 28 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | North Fork Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 57 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of North Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase): 19 producers, 16 past producers, 14 occurrences, 8 unknowns. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Babe of the Woods | Cadmium, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1876 | |
| Becky Sharp | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Big Bear No. 2 Mine | Feldspar, REE | Past Producer | Microcline | |
| Billiken and Black Knight Lodes | Uranium, Copper | Occurrence | 1900 | |
| Buffalo Mine | Lead, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1895, 1898 | |
| Butte #1 | Feldspar, Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer | Fluorite, Quartz | |
| Catherine #1 Claim | Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Feldspar, Quartz | Occurrence | Fluorite, Mica, Quartz, Topaz | |
| Cook Property | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Cooper Quarry | Quartz, Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REE | Past Producer | 1968 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | North Fork Historic District | 1.9 miles | 1974 |
| La Hacienda | 3.0 miles | 1973 | |
 | Green Mercantile Store | 3.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Blue Jay Inn | 3.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Conifer Junction Schoolhouse | 7.4 miles | 2014 |
| Midway House | 7.6 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000861 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 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.