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One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Provost Homestead-Herring Farm Rural Historic Landscape
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- Listed as. Provost Homestead--Herring Farm Rural Historic Landscape - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 2405 N Overland Trail, LaPorte, 80521
- When was it listed? December 2010
- Category. district
- Census division. Fort Collins
- National Register reference number. 10001053 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
351 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Provost Homestead-Herring Farm Rural Historic Landscape between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,157 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 293 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 27 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LAPORTE |
| 22 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
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 Provost Homestead-Herring Farm Rural Historic Landscape: 16 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger | Tungsten | Producer | ||
| Graphite Nos 1 To 7 | Graphite | Producer | ||
| Howes Gulch District | Copper, Gold, Silver | Producer | 1873 | |
| Wahketa Lease | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaPorte, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Hail | Laporte | $400,000 | A line of thunderstorms dropping heavy rain caused significant urban flooding and backed up sewer systems in Lyons. Numerous basements in Lyons were flooded out as well. The main road, extending between Livermore and Red Feather Lakes in Larimer County, was washed out at several locations. Rainfall amounts in upwards of 5.00 inches were reported in northern Larimer county near Virginia Dale. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | LaPorte | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad-Stout Branch | 0.7 miles | 2008 | |
 | Bingham Homestead Rural Historic Landscape | 1.4 miles | 2013 |
 | R. G. Maxwell House | 1.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Jacob and Elizabeth Flowers House | 1.9 miles | 2007 |
 | Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21 | 2.7 miles | 1984 |
 | Ernest Waycott House | 2.8 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10001053 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.