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Photograph of Stranges Grocery
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stranges Grocery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 226 Pitkin Ave., Grand Junction, 81501
  • When was it listed? March 2013
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Grand Junction
  • National Register reference number. 13000079 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,033 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,033 fires within 5 miles of Stranges Grocery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,315 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined888
Smoking43
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural24
Fireworks22
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGRAND JUNCTION
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Stranges Grocery: 38 unknowns, 12 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Colo Copper PropertiesCopperProducer
Lucius Pitkin IncUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
UnnamedStoneUnknown
Fireside EnterprisesLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Himes DrillingLimestone, DimensionUnknown
UnknownBarium-BariteOccurrenceHydrothermal Vein
Unnamed MineBarium-BariteUnknown
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996LightningGrand Junction$4,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindGrand Junction-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph (52 knots) at the Grand Junction airport.

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depotunder 500 feet1992
Hotel St. Regis0.2 miles1992
Margery Building0.3 miles1993
U.S. Post Office0.3 miles1980
Handy Chapel0.3 miles1994
North Seventh Street Historic Residential District0.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000079 in Record Group 79.
Mesa CountyAll 33 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.