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One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Buckhorn Ranger Station Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. Fire Route 133, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, Bellvue, 80512
- When was it listed? August 2022
- Category. district
- Census division. Livermore
- National Register reference number. 100007990 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
51 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn Ranger Station Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87,487 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | MONUMENT GULCH |
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST WHITE PINE |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | BELLVUE |
| 20 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | GREER |
| 18 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | CRYSTAL FIRE |
| 16 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BUCKHORN |
| 1 September 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BALLARD |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LAZY D |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 66 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Buckhorn Ranger Station Historic District: 22 producers, 21 occurrences, 21 past producers, 2 unknowns. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Beryllium, Mica, Tungsten, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckhorn Mica Mine | Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica, Beryllium | Producer | Beryl, Muscovite | |
| Corral Pole Mine | Mica, Beryllium, Feldspar, Gemstone, Uranium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum | Past Producer | 1958, 1971 | |
| Crystal Mountain Pegmatite District | Mica, Beryllium, Uranium, Feldspar, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Gemstone, Manganese, Bismuth, Lithium, REE | Producer | 1884, 1971 | |
| Crystal Silica Claims | Bismuth | Occurrence | ||
| Crystal Silica Mine | Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium) | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Crystal Silica Prospect | Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium | Occurrence | Beryl | |
| Kings Canyon Mine | Beryllium, Lithium | Occurrence | Beryl | |
| Primorose Beryl Lode | Beryllium, Mica, Manganese | Past Producer | 1963 | |
| Tantalum Prospect | Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium) | Occurrence | Beryl, Tantalite | |
| Tantalum Prospect | Beryllium, Tantalum, Mica | Occurrence | Beryl, Muscovite, Tantalite |
Storms near this property
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellvue, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollemon-Smith Homestead and Ranch | 7.0 miles | 2023 | |
| Lost Lake Trail | 7.2 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007990 in Record Group 79. |
| Larimer County | All 110 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.