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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Eagle County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1933, WPA Rustic.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Notch Mountain Shelter
Built in 1933 (WPA Rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Notch Mtn. Summit, White River NF, Minturn, 81645
- When was it listed? March 2015
- Category. building
- Census division. Minturn-Red Cliff
- When was it built? 1933
- Architectural style. WPA Rustic
- National Register reference number. 15000059 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Notch Mountain Shelter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | SECTION 27 |
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | FANCY LAKE |
| 26 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | CROSS CREEK FIRE |
| 19 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | MERIDIAN |
| 12 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | HOMESTAKE |
| 8 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | ROADHOUSE |
| 8 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | HOMESTAKE 27 |
| 31 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | FALL CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Notch Mountain Shelter: 8 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Manganese, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle | Iron, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Turgite | |
| Glengarry Mine | Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Homestake Creek | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Little Spring | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Morning | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Newman Mine | Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Tip Top Mining Co | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Producer | Vein | |
| Unknown | Gold, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unknown | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Cross City | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tigiwon Community House | 4.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Red Cliff Bridge | 5.1 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000059 in Record Group 79. |
| Eagle County | All 11 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.