Cripple Creek Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Cripple Creek Historic District is a historic district including Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States and is significant for its gold mining era history. It developed as a gold mining center beginning in 1890, with a number of buildings from that period surviving to this day.”
Wikipedia article Cripple Creek Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Teller County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Rt. 67, Cripple Creek, 80813
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Cripple Creek
National Register reference number. 66000939 - 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Cripple Creek Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 5 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	32
Natural	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	PISGAH
28 September 1993	Smoking	4.0 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	OIL CREEK
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
6 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	BARNARD
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	PONY GULCH
24 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
17 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Front Range District Office	SPRING CANYON

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 514 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 514 workings within 5 miles of Cripple Creek Historic District: 487 past producers, 16 producers, 8 occurrences, 2 plants. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon Anchor	Gold, Silver, Tellurium	Producer	Vein
Caledonia	Feldspar	Past Producer	Underground
Cripple Creek District	Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Mercury, Tellurium	Producer	Calaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite
Florence Lode Claim	Gemstone	Producer	Turquoise
Gedney Titanium	Titanium	Past Producer
Hull City	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Portland No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Occurrence
Ajax Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Flourine Mining Claim Ms#9800	Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer
Genevieve	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Teller County

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cripple Creek, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 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 2006	Lightning	Cripple Creek	2 hurt	Two teenage boys were hospitalized after a lightning strike occurred near them on Teller County Road 1 near Cripple Creek. Neither was seriously injured.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cripple Creek	$4,000	A severe storm produced damaging microbursts just north of Cripple Creek. Scores of pine and aspen trees were leveled, and there was minor damage to a house and surrounding outbuildings and outdoor furniture. The damage path was around 3/4 of a mile long and at a maximum 750 yards wide.
May 2025	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell across Teller County from severe thunderstorms.
July 2024	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	Hail size and time is estimated based on a picture from social media.
August 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Cripple Creek	-	Damage assessment team confirmed an EF-1 tornado briefly touched down near four mile road. with winds estimated up to 100 mph. The tornado was on the ground for 0.92 miles with an estimated 400 yard wide path of damage. Approximately 300 trees were downed.
May 2023	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	Hail reported in Mueller State Park, posted in a picture on Twitter.
June 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Cripple Creek	-	A tornado warning led to Emergency Managers doing an areal survey with a droned owned by the county. There was a loss of roof covering material (<20%) and one single structure with soft and hard wood trees uprooted along the damage path.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Cripple Creek	-	Flash flooding was noted on County Road 11, where flowing water was more than six inches deep and 100 feet wide for a time.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Cripple Creek	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of County Road 11 and properties in the vicinity. The road sustained only minor damage and was quickly repaired.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Cripple Creek	-	Another round of rain caused flash flooding northwest of Cripple Creek on County Road 11. No major road damage was reported.
July 2004	Lightning	Cripple Creek	-	A lightning strike caused a 4-hour power outage to most of Cripple Creek. The outage shut down those casinos and other businesses and residences that did not have emergency generators.
July 2023	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Cripple Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teller 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Midland Terminal Railroad Depot	3.3 miles	1984
Victor Downtown Historic District	3.4 miles	1985
Victor Hotel	3.4 miles	1980
Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station	3.6 miles	1984
Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill	3.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000939 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teller County	All 11 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.