Photograph by Michael Piontkowski (A BLM employee), Public domain. Via
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Tobasco Mine and Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“The Tobasco Mine and Mill, near Lake City, Colorado was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The listing included one contributing building, 10 contributing structures, and five contributing sites on 157 acres (64 ha).”
Wikipedia article Tobasco Mine and Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hinsdale County · listed in 2008 · category: District.
National Register reference number.08000983- 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
2 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tobasco Mine and Mill
between 1993 and 2015, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
254 workings within 5 miles of Tobasco Mine and Mill: 116 past producers, 51 unknowns, 50 occurrences, 37 producers.
37 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lake City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 debris flow, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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.
A woman was swept into Pole Creek while trying to cross the stream with her husband in a Jeep. She was missing for almost a month before her body was found along the Rio Grande River on July 25th.
Two ultramarathon runners from Canada were struck by lightning on Handies Peak at about the 14,050 foot level while competing in the 100-mile Handrock Endurance Run. Both men incurred minor injuries. The headlamp of one runner exploded when struck by the lightning.
Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain which led to multiple mudslides along County Road 30 near Cinnamon Pass. The road was closed for an extended period of time. Several vehicles were stuck behind the mudslide and the occupants had to be rescued by Search and Rescue.
Colorado Department of Transportation reported the closure of Colorado State Highway 149 at mile marker 74, roughly 1 mile north-northwest of Lake City, due to a mudslide. This area is very steep, and prone to rock and mudslides with either prolonged moderate to heavy rainfall, or short but intense heavy rainfall.
Heavy rainfall near Lake City with amounts of over and inch caused flash flooding which closed Highway 149 and deposited a large amount of debris onto the road.
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
1 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.
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.
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