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Photograph of Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad is a site where the last spike was driven into the first continuous transcontinental railroad on August 15, 1870. The site is east of Strasburg, Colorado, near railroad mile marker 602.”

Wikipedia article Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. On Union Pacific Railroad tracks E of the Strasburg depot, Strasburg, 80136
  • When was it listed? August 1970
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
  • Census division. East Arapahoe
  • National Register reference number. 70000152 - 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

58 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad between 2010 and 2020, burning about 645 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreByers Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
22 September 2010Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBennett Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBENNETT
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWATKINS
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBYERS
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBENNETT

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe CountyAll 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.