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Photograph of Salida Livestock Commission Company
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Salida Livestock Commission Company

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: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 5005 E. US 50, Salida, 81201
  • When was it listed? July 2015
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Salida
  • National Register reference number. 15000465 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Salida Livestock Commission Company between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 19 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/undetermined54
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeDEAD HORSE
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalida Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
31 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLONG FELLOW
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Salida Livestock Commission Company: 33 past producers, 21 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Gold, Tungsten, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cleora DistrictCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1870
Grand View MineCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1890, 1905
MarvelMicaOccurrenceMica
Polly No 4Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
R D H MillLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Rogers WellsvilleLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
True Blue 1, Oliver 1 ClaimsUraniumPast Producer
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
Wellsville Warm SpringGeothermalUnknown
Black Beauty DepositManganese, IronOccurrenceLimonite, Pyrolusite, Rhodonite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this property

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salida, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003LightningSalida$50,000no account filed
August 2022Debris FlowSalida-A boulder the size of an engine was reported to have fallen into the road of Highway 285.
July 2021Flash FloodSalida-County roads 110 and 111 were washed out.
August 2021Flash FloodSalida-Emergency management reported county roads 107 and 107A were flooded.
July 2020Flash FloodSalida-County Highway 101 is washed out near junction of Highway 50.
July 2007Flash FloodSalida-Heavy rain caused flooding of several county roads around Salida, including County Roads 107, 108, 111, and 291.
July 2013HailSalida-no account filed
July 2006HailSalida-no account filed
July 2003LightningSalida-no account filed

Every storm 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Manhattan Hotel1.6 miles1983
F.A. Jackson House1.8 miles1999
E.W. Corbin House1.8 miles1996
First Baptist Church of Salida1.8 miles2024
Garret and Julia Gray Cottage1.9 miles1980
Bode-Stewart House1.9 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000465 in Record Group 79.
Chaffee CountyAll 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.
  • 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.