BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ore Processing Mill and Dam
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 mi. SW of Georgetown off I-70, Georgetown, 80476
- When was it listed? May 1971
- Category. building
- Census division. Georgetown
- National Register reference number. 71000213 - 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
30 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Ore Processing Mill and Dam between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clear Creek County Office | CCX 884 |
| 23 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | THREE CHIEFS |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | EVANS |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 256 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 256 workings within 5 miles of Ore Processing Mill and Dam: 200 past producers, 25 producers, 24 occurrences, 6 unknowns. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo Saxon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Anglo-Saxon Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Bard Creek Mine | Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Lead, Silver | |
| Capitol Prize | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Capitol Prize | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Cascade Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Silver | |
| Colorado Central | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Colorado Central Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Denver Granite and Marble | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| East Butte | Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Georgetown | 1 hurt | A teenage was injured when he was struck while camping at Herman Lake. The boy was knocked unconcious and suffered minor injuries. |
| July 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Georgetown | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| July 1999 | Heavy Rain | Georgetown | - | Heavy rainfall, up to 3 inches in an hour, triggered a massive rock and mudslide along Interstate 70 near Bakerville. The slide area was approximately 200 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Several other smaller slides were also reported along the interstate. As a result, Interstate 70 was closed for nearly 25 hours in both directions until the debris could be cleared from the roadway. The 25-hr blockage of I-70 was one of the longest of the interstate's history in Colorado. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels | under 500 feet | 1971 |
 | Georgetown Loop Railroad | under 500 feet | 1970 |
 | Silver Plume Depot | 0.6 miles | 1971 |
 | Toll House | 0.6 miles | 1970 |
 | Hamill House | 0.9 miles | 1972 |
 | McClellan House | 0.9 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000213 in Record Group 79. |
| Clear Creek County | All 24 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.