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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rock Springs Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. Wetherill Mesa Road, Mesa Verde National Park, 81330
- When was it listed? December 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. Mesa Verde National Park's Early Administrative Resources MPS
- Census division. Mancos
- National Register reference number. 100011174 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
430 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Rock Springs Ranger Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,902 acres in total. 414 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 | 414 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | LOST |
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | JOURNEY |
| 9 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | CHICK |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | WILD HORSE |
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | LONG |
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | RANGER |
| 30 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | CHAPIN 11 |
| 3 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | SCHOOL CANYON |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rock Springs Ranger Station: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa Verde Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapin Mesa Village Historic District | 3.8 miles | 2024 | |
 | Mesa Verde Administrative District | 3.8 miles | 1987 |
 | Mesa Verde National Park | 6.0 miles | 1966 |
| Park Point Fire Lookout | 6.4 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011174 in Record Group 79. |
| Montezuma County | All 21 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.