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One of 9 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ruble-Orendorf Mercantile
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1635 Grand Ave, Norwood, 81423
- When was it listed? November 2023
- Category. building
- Census division. Norwood
- National Register reference number. 100009563 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
186 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Ruble-Orendorf Mercantile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,378 acres in total. 100 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 | 100 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Norwood-Redvale Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BURNS |
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | MANLY |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 19 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Norwood-Redvale Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 1 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BROAD CAN |
| 9 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | THUNDER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Ruble-Orendorf Mercantile: 9 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Coal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mack | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Brazier Bros. Drilling | Uranium, Vanadium | Unknown | ||
| Ok, Elder | Coal, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unk | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Boston, Enterprise, and Peoria Placers | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Unknown | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Mineral Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 lightning, 2 wildfire, 2 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2022 | Debris Flow | Norwood | $5,000 | Rocks of various sizes fell across the road over much of Colorado Highway 145 between Norwood and Telluride as a result of heavy rain from showers and thunderstorms. |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Norwood | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Norwood | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Norwood | $500 | Heavy rain producing thunderstorms caused minor flooding along the San Miguel County and Montrose County border. Rainfall reports in the area included 0.65 inches within 25 minutes and 0.63 inches within 15 minutes. Estimated wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph accompanied the rainfall, with minor wind damage reported at a farm. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Norwood | - | Dime to quarter-sized hail accumulated in a yard on the east side of Norwood. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Norwood | - | About 3 miles northwest of Norwood 0.59 inches of rain fell within 30 minutes. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Norwood | - | Heavy rain caused mud and debris up to a foot deep to flow across Highway 145 near the Norwood Hill area. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Norwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Norwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Norwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Norwood | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009563 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.
- 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.