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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Como Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Cty. Rd. 33, Como, 80432
- When was it listed? April 2017
- Category. district
- Also known as. Park County, Colorado Historic Cemeteries MPS; Park County, Colorado Historic Cemeteries MPS
- Census division. Fairplay
- National Register reference number. 100000842 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Como Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 17 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Park County | not named |
| 16 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BOREAS |
| 5 July 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PATIO |
| 23 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PALMER #2 |
| 17 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Jefferson-Como Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 16 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Como Cemetery: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortune Placer Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Iron Hill Placer | Gold, Platinum | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Deadwood Gulch Claims | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Park County Claims | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Cline Bench Placers | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Fortune Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Middle Tarryall Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Peabody Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Como School | 0.7 miles | 2000 |
 | Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex | 0.8 miles | 1983 |
 | Jefferson Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Depot | 6.5 miles | 1998 |
 | Boreas Railroad Station Site | 6.9 miles | 1993 |
 | Wahl Ranch | 7.6 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000842 in Record Group 79. |
| Park County | All 26 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.