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One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tower of Compassion
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. 1151 S. Pratt Parkway, Longmont, 80501
- When was it listed? May 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Longmont
- National Register reference number. 100011790 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
346 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Tower of Compassion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,272 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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 | 260 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mountain View Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Longmont Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LONGMONT |
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LONGMONT |
| 27 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 22 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boulder Fire Rescue Department | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Tower of Compassion: 10 producers, 7 past producers, 6 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Lefthand Creek Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Button R Dam | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Longmont Brick & Tile Co. | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Longmont Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| New Girl | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Frontier Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Longmont Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 77 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longmont, the town this property stands in, in 77 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 61 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Lightning | Longmont | 2 hurt | Lightning struck near two golfers at Ute Creek Golf Course, knocking them to the ground. The men received minor injures. |
| September 1996 | Lightning | West Longmont | $7,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Lightning | Longmont | $5,000 | Lightning struck and killed a 2-yr old horse at Colorado Horse Rescue's Longmont farm. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | Intense thunderstorms winds knocked down several power poles in Longmont. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Longmont | - | Lightning struck a fertilizer warehouse. Approximately one third of the structure was damaged. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | Strong thunderstorm winds downed power lines which caused a 30 minute power outage. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Longmont | - | Heavy rain and hail caused widespread street flooding in Longmont. Standing water was 2 feet deep in spots. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Longmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longmont | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | T. M. Callahan House | 1.4 miles | 1985 |
 | Dickens Opera House | 1.4 miles | 1987 |
 | West Side Historic District | 1.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Downtown Longmont Historic District | 1.5 miles | 2017 |
 | Longmont Fire Department | 1.5 miles | 1985 |
 | Longmont Carnegie Library | 1.5 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011790 in Record Group 79. |
| Boulder County | All 92 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.