Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1971 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Silver Plume, adjacent to I-70 right-of-way, Silver Plume, 80476
When was it listed? October 1971
Category. structure
Census division. Georgetown
National Register reference number. 71000214 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels 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

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 255 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 255 workings within 5 miles of Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels: 200 past producers, 26 producers, 24 occurrences, 4 unknowns. 26 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.

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

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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

6 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
Ore Processing Mill and Dam	under 500 feet	1971
Georgetown Loop Railroad	under 500 feet	1970
Silver Plume Depot	0.6 miles	1971
Toll House	0.7 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 71000214 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.