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One of 9 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 2023 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bachelor Mine
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Cty. Rd. Z13 southwest of Naturita, Naturita, 81423
- When was it listed? September 2023
- Category. site
- Also known as. Historic Radium, Uranium, and Vanadium Mining Resources in the Uravan Mineral Belt, Colorado MPS
- Census division. West San Miguel
- National Register reference number. 100009310 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bachelor Mine between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BULL CANYO |
| 26 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | CAPE HORN |
| 24 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | SUNDAY |
| 22 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BULL 1 |
| 22 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | FAWN |
| 20 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | MEXICO |
| 1 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | MEXICO MINE |
| 9 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BULL CANYON |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 342 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 342 workings within 5 miles of Bachelor Mine: 196 past producers, 56 occurrences, 42 unknowns, 37 producers. 37 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Vanadium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April Mine | Tantalum, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Gypsum Valley #2 | Potassium | Prospect | ||
| Peanut Mine | Uranium, Selenium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Bachelor | Vanadium, Uranium | Producer | Carnotite, Uraninite | |
| Big Rock | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Bob 9 | Vanadium, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Echo 2 & 3 | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Faultless | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Fossil Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Ground Hog Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | 1940, 1956 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burro Mine Complex | 7.4 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009310 in Record Group 79. |
| San Miguel County | All 9 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.