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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Guiraud-McDowell Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Address. Highway 9, Garo, 80440
- When was it listed? April 2016
- Category. district
- Census division. Fairplay
- National Register reference number. 16000154 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Guiraud-McDowell Ranch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 20 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 25 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hartsel Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 July 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Green Mountain Falls/Chipita Park Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 26 June 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Park County | not named |
| 6 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Guiraud-McDowell Ranch: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vanadium, Radium, Uranium, Copper, Vanadium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duvall Discovery | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Garo Deposit | Vanadium, Radium, Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | 1903, 1919 | |
| Garo Prospect | Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Shirley May Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper | Past Producer | 1903, 1919 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Creek-Annex-Settele Ranch | 3.7 miles | 2008 | |
 | EM Ranch | 4.9 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000154 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Park 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.
- 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.