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One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Peggy Hill Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Hill, Peggy, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 5250 Eisenhower Drive, Palmer Lake, 80132
- When was it listed? July 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Monument
- National Register reference number. 100011505 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
215 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Peggy Hill Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 16 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 | 108 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Natural | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MT HERMAN RD |
| 8 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MONUMENT ROCK |
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MT HERMAN |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tri Lakes Monument Fire Rescue Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 23 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Larkspur Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 22 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | 320 A |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Peggy Hill Cabin: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higginson Pit | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Sand and Gravel | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unnamed Placer | Gold | Past Producer | 1935 | |
| Moore Property | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmer Lake, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter fell across the Palmer Divide from a supercell thunderstorm. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell across the Palmer Divide from a supercell thunderstorm. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Palmer Lake | - | Flooded roadways, small streams overflowing banks, road closures, vehicles stranded. |
| August 2024 | Heavy Rain | Palmer Lake | - | A trained spotter reported 0.53 inches of rain, which fell in a short period of time and was produced by a strong thunderstorm. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | COOP observer reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Palmer Lake | - | There was 3.01 inches of rain that fell. |
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Palmer Lake | - | There was 6.39 inches of rain that fell. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | Hail accumulated to a depth of 2 inches. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Palmer Lake | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Inez Johnson Lewis School | 3.1 miles | 1988 |
 | United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area | 7.1 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011505 in Record Group 79. |
| El Paso County | All 98 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.