Colorado State Forest Building Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Near CO 14, Gould, 80480
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. district
Census division. Walden
National Register reference number. 100000474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Colorado State Forest Building Complex between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 3 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	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Park Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
27 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NO NAME
15 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Jackson County	not named
7 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LAFEVRE CREEK
5 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	101 ABANDONED CAMPFIRE
19 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	ASPEN LDGE
16 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	North Park Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
1 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Park Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Colorado State Forest Building Complex: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	1922
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
	Lake Agnes Cabin	3.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000474 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 3 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.