BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Saguache County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Sargents Water Tank Western Line
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Sargents Water Tank, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Western Line - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 45 Front St, Sargents, 81248
- When was it listed? August 2010
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
- Census division. Cochetopa
- National Register reference number. 10000537 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
18 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Sargents Water Tank Western Line between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,799 acres in total. 11 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 | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | NELSON CREEK |
| 2 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | LONGBRANCH |
| 15 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | BIG BEND |
| 6 July 2000 | Natural | 24 acres | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | CALF CREEK |
| 28 July 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | not named |
| 15 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | INDIAN CREEK |
| 15 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | not named |
| 14 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | STEEPY |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Sargents Water Tank Western Line: 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Creek Bog Iron Min | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Gold, Silver | Prospect | Unknown | |
| Apache #4 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Apache No. 4 Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | Pitchblende | |
| Big Indian Group | Uranium | Prospect | Autunite, Uraninite | |
| Indian Creek Claims | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Little Indian #6 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Little Indian No. 6 Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | 1955 |
Storms near this property
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sargents, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Sargents | - | A brief tornado developed along the northern slopes of Sawtooth |Mountain during the early afternoon of September 13th, 2025. This |tornado was at approximately 11,300ft in elevation. It quickly |pushed eastward causing tree damage and then dissipated after |about 5 minutes. Images from Saguache County Emergency Management |and a damage scar recognized via satellite data, were used to |perform the damage survey. Both radar data and the environment |were supportive of a tornado at this location. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Sargents | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.25 inches. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000537 in Record Group 79. |
| Saguache County | All 7 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.