Buchan Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2386 Cty. Rd. 111, Eldora, 80466
When was it listed? September 2020
Category. building
Census division. Bald Mountain
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 100005521 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Buchan Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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	36
Recreation and ceremony	22
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2017	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	JASPER LAKE
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	EAST PORTAL
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	512
28 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	LOST LAKE
25 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	COON TRACK CREEK
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 182 workings within 5 miles of Buchan Cabin: 93 past producers, 68 occurrences, 17 producers, 4 unknowns. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Anchor	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Belcher	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Blue Bird Mine	Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Underground
Boulder Co. Mine	Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Boulder County Tunnel	Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	1870
Caribou Hill iron deposit	Iron, Titanium, Vanadium	Occurrence	Ilmenite, Magnetite, Titaniferous Magnetitite
Caribou Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Vanadium	Past Producer	1869
Caribou Mine (based on DMEA uranium report)	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1869
Champion	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Pyrite, Chalcopyrite
Champion, Lone Star	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Boulder 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Eldora Historic District	2.2 miles	1989
Gold Miner Hotel	2.3 miles	1997
Gold Miner Hotel (Boundary Increase)	2.3 miles	2007
Wall Street Assay Office	4.9 miles	1989
Wall Street Assay Office (Boundary Increase)	4.9 miles	1992
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway Historic District-Rollinsville & Middle Park Wagon Road (Boundary Increase)	5.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005521 in Record Group 79.
Boulder County	All 92 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.