Commercial Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 43255 Cty. Rd. 397, Granite, 81211
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. building
Census division. Buena Vista
National Register reference number. 15000460 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Commercial Hotel between 1993 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 9 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
23 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
22 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	CLEAR CRK
11 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	LOST CANYON
10 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SPRING CREEK
7 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ARLINGTON
5 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	CLEAR CREEK
5 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
3 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	TWIN LAKES

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Commercial Hotel: 46 past producers, 22 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, 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	Recorded
C H Stenner Mill	Stone	Past Producer
Little Troy	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Hope District	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	LODE (VEIN), PLACER?
Majenta	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
New Year	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Tiger Lilly	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Tom Thumb	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence
Unknown	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pine Hall	under 500 feet	2016
McFadden Barn	6.2 miles	2022
Vicksburg Mining Camp	6.8 miles	1977
Littlejohn Mine Complex	6.8 miles	1978
McFadden Brothers Ranch East Headquarters	6.9 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000460 in Record Group 79.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.