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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
Park Point Fire Lookout
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Park Point Lookout Access Road at Mile Marker 10 off Main Park 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. 100011175 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
293 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Park Point Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,085 acres in total. 276 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 | 276 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | JUNIPER CREST |
| 9 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | CHICK |
| 8 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | REED |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | ENTRANCE 2 |
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | NORTH PARK |
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | STINKING SPRINGS |
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | RANGER |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | GRIZZLEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Park Point Fire Lookout: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mesa Verde National Park | 2.0 miles | 1966 |
| Entrance Residence, Check Station Residence | 4.9 miles | 2025 | |
 | Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company Flume No. 6 | 5.2 miles | 2012 |
| Rock Springs Ranger Station | 6.4 miles | 2024 | |
| Chapin Mesa Village Historic District | 6.8 miles | 2024 | |
 | Mesa Verde Administrative District | 6.9 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011175 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.