Lost Trail Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Lost Trail Station, in Hinsdale County, Colorado near Creede, Colorado, was built in 1877. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”
Wikipedia article Lost Trail Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hinsdale County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 81125 Forest Service Rd. 520, Creede, 81130
When was it listed? April 2011
Category. district
Census division. Lake City
National Register reference number. 11000219 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lost Trail Station between 1996 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. 2 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	2
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
18 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	UTE RIDGE
4 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	LOST LAKE
21 October 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	LOST TRAIL

Every fire recorded in Hinsdale County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lost Trail Station: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Manganese, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Napoleon	Copper	Unknown
Piedra Niegro Claim	Manganese	Occurrence	Psilomelane
Rio Grande Claims	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Unknown	Iron	Occurrence
Unknown	Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Unknown
Unknown	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Hinsdale County

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000219 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hinsdale County	All 6 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.