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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hinsdale County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ute-Ulay Mine and Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Cty. Rd. 20, Lake City, 81235
- When was it listed? October 2017
- Category. district
- Also known as. Hinsdale County Metal Mining MPS
- Census division. Lake City
- National Register reference number. 100001755 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ute-Ulay Mine and Mill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | CRYSTAL LAKE |
| 16 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | NELLY CREEK |
| 10 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | NELLY CREEK |
| 4 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | LAKE CITY |
| 24 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | HENSON CREEK |
| 17 July 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | HENSON |
| 13 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | HENSON |
| 28 June 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | CRYSTAL LAKE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 61 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 61 workings within 5 miles of Ute-Ulay Mine and Mill: 27 past producers, 25 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax #2 | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silica | Unknown | ||
| Belle of the West | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Capitol City | Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Capitol City Mine | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | 1882, 1954 | |
| Czar | Lead, Copper, Gold, Quartz, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Eckman Manganese Deposit | Manganese, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Fanny Fern Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Galena | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Galena District-Colorado | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Uranium, Bismuth, Manganese, Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium | Past Producer | 1871, 1874, 1977 | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 debris flow, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Flood | Lake City | 1 killed | A woman was swept into Pole Creek while trying to cross the stream with her husband in a Jeep. She was missing for almost a month before her body was found along the Rio Grande River on July 25th. |
| July 2014 | Lightning | Lake City | 2 hurt, $300 | Two ultramarathon runners from Canada were struck by lightning on Handies Peak at about the 14,050 foot level while competing in the 100-mile Handrock Endurance Run. Both men incurred minor injuries. The headlamp of one runner exploded when struck by the lightning. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Lake City | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Debris Flow | Lake City | $5,000 | Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain which led to multiple mudslides along County Road 30 near Cinnamon Pass. The road was closed for an extended period of time. Several vehicles were stuck behind the mudslide and the occupants had to be rescued by Search and Rescue. |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Lake City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Lake City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Lake City | - | A strong storm developed 7 miles south-southwest of Lake City producing pea to dime size hail with a few nickel size hailstones around 1045 MST. |
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Lake City | - | Colorado Department of Transportation reported the closure of Colorado State Highway 149 at mile marker 74, roughly 1 mile north-northwest of Lake City, due to a mudslide. This area is very steep, and prone to rock and mudslides with either prolonged moderate to heavy rainfall, or short but intense heavy rainfall. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Lake City | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in a rockslide across Highway 30 between Highway 149 and Lake San Cristobal. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Lake City | - | Heavy rainfall near Lake City with amounts of over and inch caused flash flooding which closed Highway 149 and deposited a large amount of debris onto the road. |
| August 2013 | Debris Flow | Lake City | - | A debris flow caused by heavy rainfall closed Highway 149 between mile markers 77 and 79 for several hours. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | - | Thunderstorm winds gusts estimated up to 60 mph broke off tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter at Lake City. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lake City Historic District | 3.4 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001755 in Record Group 79. |
| Hinsdale County | All 6 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.