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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Entrance Residence, Check Station Residence
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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. Park Entrance Road at junction with U.S. Highway 160, Mesa Verde National Park, 81328
- When was it listed? March 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. Mesa Verde National Park's Early Administrative Resources MPS
- Census division. Mancos
- National Register reference number. 100011177 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
235 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Entrance Residence, Check Station Residence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,454 acres in total. 212 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 212 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | JUNIPER CREST |
| 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 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | GRIZZLEY |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | SUMMIT |
| 3 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | AGUA |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Entrance Residence, Check Station Residence: 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Point Fire Lookout | 4.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company Flume No. 6 | 5.0 miles | 2012 |
| Haynie Site | 5.7 miles | 2017 | |
 | Mesa Verde National Park | 6.3 miles | 1966 |
 | Mancos High School | 6.6 miles | 1991 |
 | Wrightsman House | 6.7 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011177 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.