Johnson Stage Station

Built in 1878. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Johnson Stage Station, between Gunnison, Colorado and Lake City, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.”
Wikipedia article Johnson Stage Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 2017 · category: District · built in 1878.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2.2 mi. S. of the jct. of Cty. Rd. 64 & US 149, Powderhorn, 81243
When was it listed? August 2017
Category. district
Census division. Sapinero
When was it built? 1878
National Register reference number. 16000667 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Stage Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 July 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	RED BRIDGE
21 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	DUTCH GULCH
20 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	DUTCH GULCH
11 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	GATEVIEW
5 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	GRAY HOUSE
18 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
6 May 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	WILLOW CRK
5 April 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Johnson Stage Station: 51 occurrences, 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Lead, Manganese, Arsenic. 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
Adair Group	Thorium, Lead, REE, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	Vein
Dubois Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Thorium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Thorite
Dubois Mine	Manganese, Silver	Past Producer
Goose Creek District	Silver, Copper, Gold, Arsenic, Zinc, Manganese, Lead, Thorium, REE	Producer	1880, 1934
Lady In Red No. 5 Claim	Thorium, REE	Occurrence	Vein
May Queen Mine	Lead, Copper, Thorium	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Thorite
May Queen Mine	Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Unknown	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Unknown	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Unknown

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this property

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powderhorn, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Debris Flow	Powderhorn	$2,500	Highway 149 was closed due to mudslides that occurred between Elk Road and County Road 149A.

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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 16000667 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gunnison County	All 21 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.