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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gilpin County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bain Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 501 Shoshoni Camp Rd., Rollinsville, 80422
- When was it listed? April 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Central City
- National Register reference number. 100002289 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
243 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Bain Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,175 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined | 148 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nederland Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SITE 11 FIRE |
| 8 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nederland Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nederland Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nederland Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | 925A |
| 7 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | 355C |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 250 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 250 workings within 5 miles of Bain Cabin: 160 past producers, 61 occurrences, 23 producers, 3 unknowns. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Moon | Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, Deadwood | Gold, Tungsten | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Boulder Co. Mine | Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Boulder County Tunnel | Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | 1870 | |
| Clark Tunnel | Tungsten, Silver, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Cougar, Greyback | Molybdenum, Tungsten | Occurrence | Molybdenite | |
| Ellis Lode | Gold, Garnet, Copper, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Fairheaven | Emery, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Golden Flint | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | Pyrite | |
| Iowa Girl Lode | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollinsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Hail | Rollinsville | - | Hail covered ground 2-3 inches deep in and near Rollinsville. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Rollinsville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rollinsville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rollinsville | - | no account filed |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Winks Panorama (Boundary Increase) | 1.9 miles | 2014 |
 | Winks Panorama | 1.9 miles |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002289 in Record Group 79. |
| Gilpin County | All 8 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.