Spruce Lodge

Built in 1927 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“US Hwy. 160 in South Fork, Colorado, is a hotel complex whose main original building was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Spruce Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Rio Grande County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1927, 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 29431 W. US Hwy. 160, South Fork, 81154
When was it listed? October 2008
Category. building
Census division. Del Norte
When was it built? 1927
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 08001009 - 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

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Spruce Lodge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 9,336 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	WILLOW
12 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	WILLOW PARK
1 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	MILLION SPOT
6 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	ROOSTER
5 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	SHAW MESA
20 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	TROUT
17 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	LOST LAKE 2
13 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Spruce Lodge: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pog Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Rio Grande County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Fork, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2002	Wildfire	South Fork	$11,000,000	no account filed
June 2002	Wildfire	South Fork	$11,000,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	South Fork	$5,000	A spotter reported marble-size hail caused damage to homes east of South Fork (38 miles west northwest of Alamosa), and stripped leaves off of trees.
October 2022	Heavy Rain	South Fork	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.17 inches.
August 2003	Flash Flood	South Fork	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Beaver Creek road...Mill Creek road and some secondary roads to be closed due to water. Mud and debris flowed across the roads inundated drainage ditches in and near the Million Burn scar.
August 2003	Flash Flood	South Fork	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Beaver Creek road...Escondida road and Skyline road to close due to high water and mud and ash flows.
July 2012	Hail	South Fork	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	South Fork	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	South Fork	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rio Grande 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Denver & Rio Grande Railroad South Fork Water Tank	0.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001009 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rio Grande County	All 13 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.