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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Spring House-Moynahan House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 53 South Pine St., Alma, 80420
- When was it listed? March 2021
- Category. building
- Census division. Fairplay
- National Register reference number. 100006292 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
58 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Spring House-Moynahan House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 10 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 | 32 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FAIRPLAY |
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 23 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 15 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 1 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BEAVER CREEK 3 |
| 9 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 121 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 121 workings within 5 miles of Spring House-Moynahan House: 85 past producers, 24 occurrences, 10 producers, 1 plant. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Placer & Leaching Plant | Gold, Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Alma Placers | Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| American Mill | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | 1933 | |
| Buckskin Joe | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Buckskin Joe | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Producer | Replacement | |
| Copper King Prospect | Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Criterion Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Detroit-Hicks | Copper, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1894 | |
| Dolly Varden Et Al | Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite | |
| Fannie Barret Mine | Manganese | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alma, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Lightning | Alma | 1 hurt | A man was hit by lightning as he ascended to the summit of Mt. Lincoln. The man was knocked unconcious for approximately 20 minutes. He suffered a ruptured ear drum as well as second and third degree burns. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Alma | - | In addition to the one inch hail. CDOT web cameras showed hail covering 285 in and near Fairplay. Plowable hail. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | South Park City Museum | 5.0 miles | 2014 |
 | Summer Saloon | 5.0 miles | 1974 |
 | South Park Lager Beer Brewery | 5.0 miles | 1974 |
 | Park County Courthouse and Jail | 5.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Fairplay Hotel | 5.1 miles | 2008 |
 | South Park Community Church | 5.2 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006292 in Record Group 79. |
| Park County | All 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.
- 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.