Graves Camp Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2016 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Five miles west of I-25 just south of the Colorado-Wyoming state line, in far northeastern Larimer County, Wellington, 80549
When was it listed? December 2016
Category. site
Census division. Timnath-Wellington
National Register reference number. 16000155 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Graves Camp Rural Historic District: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diamond, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Woodhams Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Schaffer 15 Prospect	Diamond	Occurrence	Diamond
Schaffer 16 Prospect	Diamond	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellington, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 44 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 2013	Lightning	Wellington	9 hurt	Lightning injured nine migrant workers.
July 1994	Hail	Wellington	$500,000	Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County.
July 1994	Hail	Wellington	$500,000	Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County.
July 1994	Hail	Wellington	$500,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Wellington	$50,000	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Wellington	-	Report from mping.
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	Windows were smashed by large hail.
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	Hail damaged a window.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	-	Two outbuildings were destroyed by microburst winds.
July 2011	Hail	Wellington	-	Very strong winds to 50 mph were also observed.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	-	Strong winds damaged a loafing shed.
September 1998	Flash Flood	Wellington	-	Strong thunderstorms produced 4.5 inches of rainfall in the span of 2 hours. Box Elder Creek reportedly jumped its banks and flooded a nearby road.
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Wellington	-	Spotters reported two brief tornado touchdowns north and west of Wellington (nine miles northeast of Fort Collins). The tornadoes touched down in open fields, with no damage or injuries reported.
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Wellington	-	Spotters reported two brief tornado touchdowns north and west of Wellington (nine miles northeast of Fort Collins). The tornadoes touched down in open fields, with no damage or injuries reported.
August 1993	Tornado (F0)	Wellington	-	County sheriff reported a short-lived tornado touch down in an open field north of Wellington (9 miles northeast of Fort Collins). Lightning struck a transformer in Loveland, causing a brief power outage.
June 2025	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Wellington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000155 in Record Group 79.
Larimer County	All 110 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.
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.