Longhurst Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. CO 7 & Cty. Rd. 82, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland., Allenspark, 80510
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. building
Census division. Upper St. Vrain
National Register reference number. 100001606 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Longhurst Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	95
Recreation and ceremony	32
Natural	21
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	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
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-Boulder District	not named
6 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	TAYLOR MOUNTAIN
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	TIMBERLINE FALLS
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BUNCE SCHOOL
30 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Allenspark Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
24 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ST. VRAIN

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Longhurst Lodge: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Beryllium, Zinc, Silver. 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
Bradshaw	Uranium	Past Producer
Old Town	Gold, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Twin Sister	Beryllium	Past Producer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allenspark, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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 1996	Hail	Allenspark	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
Wild Basin House	2.1 miles	1988
Wild Basin Ranger Station and House	2.1 miles	1988
Sandbeach Lake Trail	2.6 miles	2008
Bunce School	3.6 miles	1986
Thunder Lake Trail-Bluebird Lake Trail	4.8 miles	2008
Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin	6.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001606 in Record Group 79.
Boulder County	All 92 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.