A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“The Central City/Black Hawk Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the developed areas of Central City and Black Hawk, Colorado, United States. They are adjacent former gold mining camps in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Gilpin County, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Central City/Black Hawk Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gilpin County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000246- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
86 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 86 fires within 5 miles of William's Stables
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined
42
Recreation and ceremony
13
Natural
12
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Fireworks
1
Debris and open burning
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
8 September 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Central City Fire Department
N/A
7 September 1997
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
PICKLE
3 September 1999
Natural
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
MIKE FIRE
12 September 2017
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
WHITE HORSE
9 August 2009
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
BALD MOUNTAIN
31 August 2020
Smoking
under an acre
Black Hawk Fire Department
N/A
30 August 2018
Smoking
under an acre
Black Hawk Fire Department
UNKNOWN
28 August 2002
Natural
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
873 workings within 5 miles of William's Stables: 725 past producers, 72 occurrences, 55 producers, 17 unknowns.
57 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Central City, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 3 hail.
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.
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
4 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.
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.
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