BlockFrom the record
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Approximately 1 mi. N. by NE of US 50 at cimarron, adjacent to Morrow Point Dam Rd., Curecanti National Recreation Ctr., Cimarron, 81220
- When was it listed? April 2009
- Category. structure
- Census division. Montrose
- Architect. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
- National Register reference number. 09000222 - 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
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577 between 1993 and 2020, burning about 653 acres in total. 7 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | STUMPY CRK |
| 8 July 2002 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | DRY FIRE |
| 4 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | STUMPY RD |
| 3 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | MORROW P 2 |
| 3 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Curecanti National Recreation Area | 2O27 |
| 29 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | SHIRLEY |
| 14 July 2000 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | SQUAW |
| 17 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Beryllium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Canyon Beryl Prospect | Beryllium | Occurrence | 1943 | |
| Goat Hill Mine | Feldspar, Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Goat Hill #1 | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Mica Property | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Muscovite #1 | Mica | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Boxcar No. 3132 | under 500 feet | 2009 |
 | Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 278 and Tender | under 500 feet | 2009 |
 | Rio Grande Southern Railroad Derrick Car | 0.7 miles | 2010 |
 | Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Box Outfit Car No. 04414 | 0.7 miles | 2009 |
 | Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5620 | 0.7 miles | 2010 |
 | Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5679D | 0.7 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000222 in Record Group 79. |
| Montrose County | All 28 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.