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McFadden Brothers Ranch East Headquarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 18101 Mountain View Dr., Buena Vista, 81211
  • When was it listed? January 2023
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Buena Vista
  • National Register reference number. 100007932 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of McFadden Brothers Ranch East Headquarters between 1992 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1

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
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFRENCHMAN CREEK
27 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFOURMILE
24 August 2014Naturalunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
22 August 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeNUMBERS
14 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestDIRTY OLD MAN
7 July 2011Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBUFFALO PEAKS
4 July 2007Natural3.0 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestFRENCHMAN CREEK
31 July 1993Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of McFadden Brothers Ranch East Headquarters: 10 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
Josephine MineGold, CobaltProducerGold
Josephine MineCobalt, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Mt. HarvardGold, Copper, Silver, LeadOccurrenceVein
TamarackCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
TamarackGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
WapacaCopperOccurrenceVein
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Unidentified Gold PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Unidentified Gold PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buena Vista, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Flash FloodBuena Vista2 hurt, $100,000no account filed
June 2005LightningBuena Vista$50,000no account filed
July 2007Flash FloodBuena Vista$20,000Flash flooding occurred, which brought 2 to 3 feet of standing water and mud in low lying residental areas of Buena Vista.
July 2021Flash FloodBuena Vista-Heavy rainfall washed out County road 371, from a small drainage which flows across the road. Two cars were stuck in the mud.
July 2021Flash FloodBuena Vista-County road 304 was washed out.
July 2017Flash FloodBuena Vista-A flash flood and mud flow on US Highway 285 near Johnson Village made the road impassible for a time.
August 2004Flash FloodBuena Vista-The ongoing mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass road, causing a threat to motorists, campers, and nearby homeowners.
August 2004Flash FloodBuena Vista-In total, five mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass Road (CR 306) about one mile west of the hot springs pool. The mud on the road ranged from two to 14 feet deep. Cottonwood Hot Springs and several residences needed to be evacuated as a precaution.
July 2004LightningBuena Vista-While no humans were affected, a pig was struck by lightning and killed. The pig was a prized swine, scheduled to be entered in the 4-H competition at the Chaffee County Fair.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaffee 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

5 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
McFadden Barn0.8 miles2022
Littlejohn Mine Complex6.0 miles1978
Behrman Ranch6.0 miles2012
Pine Hall6.9 miles2016
Commercial Hotel6.9 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007932 in Record Group 79.
Chaffee CountyAll 46 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.