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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Huerfano County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Oxford Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 118 W. 6th Street, Walsenburg, 81089
- When was it listed? November 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Walsenburg
- National Register reference number. 100011000 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Oxford Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,806 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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 | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 23 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WALSENBURG |
| 20 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 19 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 18 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WALSENBURG |
| 11 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 July 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Huerfano County | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Oxford Hotel: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Huerfano Granite Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kirkpatrick Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 66 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walsenburg, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 56 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | $30,000 | Very large hail damaged vehicles, broke windows, and destroyed roofs on structures in a mostly rural area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walsenburg | - | AWOS station K4V1 4 N Walsenburg. The station measured a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Walsenburg | - | Spotter reported 1.75 inches of rain. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Walsenburg | - | Roadway flooding. |
| August 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Walsenburg | - | A brief tornado occurred and caused no known damage east of Interstate 25 over open country. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Walsenburg | - | A thunderstorm with very heavy rain caused flash flooding in rural areas of the county. Severe erosion occurred on area gravel and dirt roads. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Walsenburg | - | Rainfall of 1 to 3 inches in a short time frame caused flooding of irrigation and other ditches as well as areas of deep water in parking lots in the vicinity of Walsenburg. |
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Walsenburg | - | Heavy rain caused some small stream flooding as well as road flooding. |
| September 2023 | Heavy Rain | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Walsenburg | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Huerfano County Courthouse and Jail | under 500 feet | 1973 |
| Walsenburg Mercantile | 0.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Huerfano County High School | 0.6 miles | 2005 |
 | Maitland Arroyo Bridge | 4.1 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011000 in Record Group 79. |
| Huerfano County | All 10 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.