BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine and Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. 1 Goose Creek Rd., Creede, 81154
- When was it listed? April 2019
- Category. district
- Also known as. Mining Industry in Colorado, MPS
- Census division. Creede
- National Register reference number. 100003643 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine and Mill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 12 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 | 12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | SODA |
| 31 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 31 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | BLUE PARK |
| 3 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | PALISADE |
| 25 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | WOODFERN |
| 20 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | GOOSE |
| 13 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | MCCALL GULCH |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine and Mill: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wagon Wheel Gap | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer | Barite | |
| Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1911, 1913, 1950 | |
| Wagon Wheel Springs | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creede, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008 | Lightning | Creede | 1 killed | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Creede | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Heavy Rain | Creede | - | Public reported 1.00 inch of total rainfall. Rain fell yesterday afternoon through last night. |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Creede | - | Mud slide over highway 149 blocking northbound lane. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort | 0.4 miles | 2019 | |
 | Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Station | 1.2 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003643 in Record Group 79. |
| Mineral 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.