BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Saguache County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Baca Land Grant No. 4-Baca Ranch Rural Historic Landscape
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. Cty. Rd. T, Crestone, 81131
- When was it listed? September 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Saguache
- National Register reference number. 100009333 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
50 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Baca Land Grant No. 4-Baca Ranch Rural Historic Landscape between 2007 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 13 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 30 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 28 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 21 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 19 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Baca Grande Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Storms near this property
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestone, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Lightning | Crestone | 1 killed, 1 hurt | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestone | $10,000 | A severe wind on the southern edge of a storm knocked down around three dozen trees, and broke a few windows and did some roof damage to structures southeast of Crestone. |
| July 2025 | Debris Flow | Crestone | - | Heavy rainfall over Medano Pass, in Great Sand Dunes National Park, triggered flash flooding and debris flows along Medano Pass Primitive Road. Sections of the road, culverts and other drainage infrastructure were washed out or covered in debris. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Crestone | - | There was a report of one house flooded and multiple houses being sandbagged near Willow Creek in the Baca Grande region of Crestone, Colorado. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Crestone | - | Scouring of gravel road surfaces, with deep trenches in some road ditches. Near by normally dry arroyo was bank full. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Crestone | - | Trained spotter reported road damage. |
| August 2019 | Heavy Rain | Crestone | - | Over one inch of rainfall fell within 70 minutes causing minor street flooding and a small creek to near bank-full. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Crestone | - | A funnel cloud moved onto the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains near Crestone. As the terrain intercepted the funnel cloud...it became a tornado on the mountainside for a brief time causeing some minor tree damage. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Crestone | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Crestone | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Creststone School | 7.6 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009333 in Record Group 79. |
| Saguache County | All 7 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.
- 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.