John Herbert Nunns House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Garfield 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Nunns, John Herbert, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 311 N. 7th St., Silt, 81652
When was it listed? December 2013
Category. building
Census division. New Castle
National Register reference number. 13000871 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of John Herbert Nunns House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,074 acres in total. 101 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	101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Firearms and explosives use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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 2000	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GFX ASSIST 20
7 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GARFIELD C
6 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SLAUGHTER
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado River Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GFX ASSIST 429
27 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	MINEOTA
23 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	SILT
2 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GFX ASSIST 475

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John Herbert Nunns House: 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rifle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silt, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 4 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 wildfire. The reports record 1 death. 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 1997	Flash Flood	Silt	1 killed, $150,000	no account filed
July 2019	Flood	Silt	$5,000	The northbound lane of Colorado State Highway 325 was closed for an extended period of time about 2 miles north of Rifle Gap Reservoir between Rifle Gap and Rifle Falls State Park due to a partial collapse of the roadway. The collapse was the result of excessive runoff from snow melt and the accumulation of underground water.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Silt	$100	A small segment of Highway 325 in Rifle Falls State Park was washed out by a flash flood caused by heavy rainfall.
September 2019	Hail	Silt	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail the size of quarters east of Silt.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Silt	-	A trained weather spotter's anemometer recorded a peak wind gust of 61 MPH.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Silt	-	An automated weather station 1 mile west-southwest of Silt recorded a peak wind gust of 67 MPH.
August 2017	Debris Flow	Silt	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in a large quantity of mud and vegetation which flowed down a drainage and covered Highway 325 between mile markers 5.5 and 5.7. The highway was closed for about 30 minutes until road crews were able to clear the pavement.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Silt	-	Heavy rainfall over a burn scar area resulted in fast moving water and debris up to a foot deep across Highway 325. The flash flood deposited mud, rocks, and debris about a half foot deep along a 110 foot stretch of the highway. The highway was closed for over three hours due to the flash flooding and the post-flood debris removal.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Silt	-	Highway 325 was closed for a while near Rifle Gap Reservoir as 6 to 12 inches of water and mud flowed across the road.
June 2010	Hail	Silt	-	Hail up to 1.0 inch in diameter was reported 1 mile east of Silt.
September 2007	Heavy Rain	Silt	-	About a foot of water was standing on Highway 6 just east of Silt.
September 2007	Heavy Rain	Silt	-	One inch of rain fell in 15 minutes.
July 2007	Hail	Silt	-	no account filed
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Silt	-	no account filed
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Silt	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flood	Silt	-	no account filed
October 2001	Wildfire	Silt	-	no account filed
September 2001	Wildfire	Silt	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Rifle Bridge	6.8 miles	1985
	US Post Office-Rifle Main	6.9 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000871 in Record Group 79.
Garfield County	All 20 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.