Frontenac and Aduddell Mine Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gilpin County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 0.25 mi. southwest of jct. of Church Placer and Pewabic Mountain Rds., Russell Gulch, 80427
When was it listed? December 2020
Category. district
Also known as. Mining Industry in Colorado, MPS
Census division. Central City
National Register reference number. 100005981 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Frontenac and Aduddell Mine Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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	29
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	12
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central City Fire Department	N/A
4 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
3 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MIKE FIRE
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WHITE HORSE
9 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BALD MOUNTAIN
7 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL
31 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Black Hawk Fire Department	N/A
30 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Black Hawk Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 1,049 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1,049 workings within 5 miles of Frontenac and Aduddell Mine Complex: 892 past producers, 67 producers, 64 occurrences, 22 unknowns. 69 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, 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
394357	Silver, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Ajax	Mica, Feldspar, Quartz	Producer	Feldspar, Mica, Quartz
Ajax Mica Mine	Mica, Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer
Alma-Lincoln Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite
Anchor	Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Pyrite, Fluorite
Angeline	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Atlantic & Brighton	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Underground
Bachus Group	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Baltimore-#7391	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	1867
Barita-Hill Mine	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Producer	Galena, Silver

Every working recorded in Gilpin 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

4 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
Russell Gulch I.O.O.F. Hall No. 47-Wagner and Askew	1.1 miles	2011
Teller House	2.2 miles	1973
Central City Opera House	2.2 miles	1973
William's Stables	2.2 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005981 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.