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Photograph of Shawnee
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Shawnee

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Shawnee is an unincorporated community and post office in northern Park County, Colorado, United States, that is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”

Wikipedia article Shawnee, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Fires near this property

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,620 acres in total. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony8
Firearms and explosives use3
Smoking3
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forest64
29 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCOMPUTER TERMINAL
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte Canyon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 1
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 2
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
2 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPAYNE
15 September 2019Firearms and explosives use12 acresPike and San Isabel National Forest64-A

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Redskin MinesMolybdenum, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Redskin ClaimsUraniumOccurrenceTorbernite
Redskin MinesUraniumPast Producer1963

Every working recorded in Park 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

2 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
Glenisle2.9 miles1985
Estabrook Historic District7.1 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park CountyAll 26 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.