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One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2023 · category: District · built in 1938, rustic architecture.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Redfeather Ranger Station
Built in 1938 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 274 Dowdy Lake Rd., Arapahoe and Roosevelt NF, Red Feather Lakes, 80545
- When was it listed? May 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Livermore
- When was it built? 1938
- Architectural style. rustic architecture
- National Register reference number. 100008985 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
113 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Redfeather Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 41 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LAKEFIELD 2 |
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | PARROTT |
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SUNDANCE |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | not named |
| 8 September 1992 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Larimer County | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LOST |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | ELKHORN |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | CREEDMORE LAKES |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Redfeather Ranger Station: 5 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan District | Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Uranium | Past Producer | 1941 | |
| Rainbow Lode | Beryllium | Past Producer | ||
| Redfeather Pit | Quartz | Past Producer | ||
| Uranium Queen Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1956, 1964 | |
| Batterson Lode | Uranium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Gold Coin Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lady Moon Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | 1964 | |
| Prodigal Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this property
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Feather Lakes, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | 1 killed | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | 1 hurt | Lightning struck and injured a man near Fox Acres. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | Intense straight line winds downed power lines along county road 69. Over one thousand trees were downed near Red Feather Lakes. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Red Feather Lakes | - | The combination of heavy rain, coupled with extremely saturated ground conditions, produced additional flash flooding. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Arrowhead Lodge | 7.1 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008985 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.