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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Masonic Placer Cemetery-Valley Brook Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- Address. 905 Airport Rd., Breckinridge, 80424
- When was it listed? July 2014
- Category. site
- Census division. Breckenridge
- National Register reference number. 14000422 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
171 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Placer Cemetery-Valley Brook Cemetery between 1994 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 2 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 | 119 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 24 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | BRECKENRIDGE |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | White River National Forest | IRON SPRINGS |
| 29 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 116 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 116 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Placer Cemetery-Valley Brook Cemetery: 48 past producers, 39 occurrences, 20 producers, 8 unknowns. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briar Rose Mine | Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite | |
| Bullion King | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Cally Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Carbonate Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Producer | Anglesite, Galena | |
| Commodore Placer | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Como Claims | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Dunkin | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1895 | |
| Fox Lake Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Producer | ||
| Hamilton | Silver, Gold, Lead | Producer | Pyrite, Sphalerite, Galena | |
| Harrison Tunnel | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Breckenridge Historic District | 1.1 miles | 1980 |
| The Bunk House Lodge | 2.0 miles | 2025 | |
| Soda Creek Ranch | 5.3 miles | 2010 | |
 | Wildhack's Grocery Store-Post Office | 5.9 miles | 1985 |
 | Frisco Schoolhouse | 6.0 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000422 in Record Group 79. |
| Summit County | All 8 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.