Little Buckaroo Ranch Barn

Built in 1942. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1942.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 20631 Trail Ridge Rd., Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, 80447
When was it listed? July 2009
Category. building
Census division. Granby
When was it built? 1942
National Register reference number. 09000490 - 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Little Buckaroo Ranch Barn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 697 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 1 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Rocky Mountain National Park	ONAHU
15 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	KAWUNEECHE
15 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SOUTH SUPPLY
31 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	ONAHU CREEK
27 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BACKFIRE
18 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MID SUPPLY CREEK
15 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
14 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BEAVER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Grand 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 Little Buckaroo Ranch Barn: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten. 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
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Wolverine Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold	Producer	Vein
Wolverine Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2021	Flash Flood	Grand Lake	$25,000	Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Lake	-	Strong microburst winds damaged several boats at Grand Lake. Two large pontoon boats were lifted out of the water, one landed upside down near a home.

Every storm recorded in Grand 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Holzwarth Historic District	2.9 miles	1977
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 247	3.5 miles	1988
Timber Creek Road Camp Barn	3.5 miles	1987
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246	3.6 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 245	3.6 miles	1988
Grand Lake Lodge	5.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000490 in Record Group 79.
Grand County	All 22 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.