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TBM Avenger Aircraft N53503

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 780 Heritage Way, Grand Junction Regional Airport, Grand Junction, 81506
  • When was it listed? November 2017
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Fruita
  • National Register reference number. 100001791 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,118 fires within 5 miles of TBM Avenger Aircraft N53503 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 were 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/undetermined960
Smoking39
Equipment and vehicle use28
Recreation and ceremony24
Debris and open burning23
Fireworks18
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Firearms and explosives use3
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClifton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGRAND JUNCTION
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClifton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of TBM Avenger Aircraft N53503: 17 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Colo Copper PropertiesCopperProducer
Lucius Pitkin IncUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Unnamed MineBarium-BariteUnknown
Fireside EnterprisesLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Himes DrillingLimestone, DimensionUnknown
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Amax UraniumUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996LightningGrand Junction$4,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindGrand Junction-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph (52 knots) at the Grand Junction airport.

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cross Land and Fruit Company Orchards and Ranch3.0 miles1980
North Seventh Street Historic Residential District3.7 miles1984
U.S. Post Office4.0 miles1980
Margery Building4.1 miles1993
Handy Chapel4.1 miles1994
Hotel St. Regis4.2 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001791 in Record Group 79.
Mesa CountyAll 33 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.