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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Delta Municipal Light & Power Plant
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1133 Main St., Delta, 81416
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Delta
- National Register reference number. 100010079 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
255 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Delta Municipal Light & Power Plant between 2011 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None 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 | 250 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | DELTA |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | N/A |
| 22 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 21 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 16 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 14 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 6 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Delta Municipal Light & Power Plant: 9 past producers, 8 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipeta Mill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Delta County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Delta Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2009: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $500,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home in Peach Valley, east of Delta. No one was injured. Time estimated. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Delta | $40,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Lightning | Delta | $28,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Delta | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Delta | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Delta | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Flood | Delta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Delta | - | Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in the southern part of the town of Delta, including the area around 12th and Main Street. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Delta | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flood | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First Methodist Episcopal Church of Delta | 0.6 miles | 1991 |
 | Egyptian Theater | 0.6 miles | 1993 |
 | US Post Office and Federal Building-Delta Main | 0.7 miles | 1986 |
 | Garnethurst | 0.7 miles | 1995 |
 | Delta County Bank Building | 0.8 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010079 in Record Group 79. |
| Delta County | All 16 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.