BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Huerfano County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Veta Pass
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. 3652, 3665, 3688 Cty. Rd. 443, La Veta, 81055
- When was it listed? August 2011
- Category. district
- Census division. La Veta
- National Register reference number. 11000607 - 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
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Veta Pass between 1993 and 2011, burning about 3 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | MT MAESTES |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
| 7 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
| 14 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
| 13 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
| 12 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 24 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
| 24 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA VETA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Veta Pass: 20 past producers, 15 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken & Hoppy Claims | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Grayback North District | Lead, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| John Moore and Lucky Claims | Iron, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Mcguire Lode | Uranium, Copper, Vanadium | Prospect | Carnotite, Malachite, Calciovolborthite | |
| Muleshoe Uranium Deposit | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Sunnyside Tunnel | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| X. T. C. Claim | Copper, Silver | Prospect | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite | |
| City Slicker Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | Carnotite | |
| Hall Property | Vanadium, Uranium, Copper | Occurrence | Carnotite, Malachite |
Storms near this property
32 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Veta, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 14 flash flood, 9 heavy rain, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Lightning | La Veta | $40,000 | A summer house was totally destroyed by a lightning started fire. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | La Veta | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall led to some water over short stretches of Hwy 160, county roads, ditches, and other low-lying areas. No other notable impacts reported. Radar-estimated rainfall of 1.5-2.0 inches occurred over impacted areas within warning area. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Veta | - | Public source (via mPing) reported wind damage with 1 inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off. |
| June 2023 | Hail | La Veta | - | Public reported. |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | There was 1.6 inches of rain reported. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.53 inches. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.82 inches measured at Harrison Bridge near Cucharas, in one hour. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Road 421 was overtopped for hundreds of yards. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall of 3.70 inches. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall of 3.45 inches. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rain of 1.70 inches, La Veta. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rain of 2.54 inches, 5 miles north northeast Spanish Peaks. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | One-hour total. |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | La Veta | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.9 inches. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Rushing water across CR 421 along Indian creek, about a foot deep. Road is impassable. |
| August 2020 | Debris Flow | La Veta | - | Mud slide across Highway 12 has closed the road down from mm 13-14, per CSP Pueblo. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | County road 430 is submerged by heavy flows from Middle Creek. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Water has over-topped CR 430. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Highway 12 in La Veta has been closed with water flowing across the road surface. Water was at least 4 inches deep. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | County Road 440 has been washed out with possible damage to nearby railroad tracks. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | At least 2 feet of water rapidly flowing across CR 430. Looks to impact at least 100 yards of the road surface. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Middle Creek has over topped its banks with water flowing across CR 430. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | A storm produced heavy rain and flash flooding of drainages and roadways east of East Spanish Peak. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Several county roads, including Shangri-La subdivision and CR 340, experienced flooding and washouts within the East Peak burn scar north of East Spanish Peak. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused road damage near La Veta in Huerfano County. |
| May 2021 | Hail | La Veta | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | La Veta | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | La Veta | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | La Veta | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | La Veta | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | La Veta | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | La Veta Pass Narrow Gauge Railroad Depot | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000607 in Record Group 79. |
| Huerfano County | All 10 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.