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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1930, WPA Rustic.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Monument Lake Park Building and Hatchery Complex
Built in 1930 (WPA Rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- Address. 4789 CO 12, Weston, 81091
- When was it listed? November 2014
- Category. district
- Census division. Weston
- When was it built? 1930
- Architectural style. WPA Rustic, Pueblo Revival Style architecture
- National Register reference number. 14000950 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
28 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Monument Lake Park Building and Hatchery Complex between 1992 and 2018, burning about 447 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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 | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 September 2014 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 August 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 27 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | BONES |
| 3 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 20 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PURGATOIRE |
| 13 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 11 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Storms near this property
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Weston | $20,000 | Several roads north of Highway 12 sustained severe erosion due to deep, fast-flowing water. |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | Weston | - | There was 1.57 inches of rain reported. |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | Weston | - | There was 1.61 inches of rain recorded. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Weston | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.28 inches. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Weston | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Weston | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000950 in Record Group 79. |
| Las Animas County | All 26 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.
- 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.