Pioneer Sod House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Pioneer Sod House, now known as the Wheat Ridge Museum and Sod House in Wheat Ridge, Colorado is a sod house built in 1886 or perhaps well before. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Pioneer Sod House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4610 Robb St., Wheat Ridge, 80033
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
Census division. Northeast Jefferson
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 73000479 - 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

1,175 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,175 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer Sod House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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	1003
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Smoking	31
Recreation and ceremony	17
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	15
Fireworks	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	2

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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ARVADA
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arvada Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Pioneer Sod House: 13 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Uranium, Vanadium, Zeolites. 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
Ladwig Properties	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
North Table Mountain	Zeolites	Producer
Rio Grande Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1973
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Linda 1&2 Mine	Gold	Occurrence
Swadley Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1858, 1859
Youngfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Past Producer	1979
Allied Dirt Div Green Mtn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Asphalt Paving Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheat Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2023	Lightning	Wheat Ridge	$25,000	Lightning damaged a home in Wheat Ridge.
July 2025	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	Report from mping.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Wheat Ridge	-	Heavy rain caused flooding and flash flooding problems over southwest portions of Metropolitan Denver. An observer in Lakewood recorded 3.26 inches of rainfall in one hour. Several streets were flooded in central Lakewood. In addition, a trailer park along Lena Gulch in Wheat Ridge was evacuated due to the highwaters.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheat Ridge	-	A dry microburst produced an estimated 60 mph (53 kt) wind gust in Wheat Ridge.
May 1995	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	Severe thunderstorms rumbled across the Denver Metropolitan area dropping mainly pea- to marble sized-hail. Wheat Ridge received hail stones up to 1.25 inches in diameter. Hail piled up to two inches deep in Wheat Ridge and Northwest Denver.
June 2023	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed
October 1994	Hail	Wheat Ridge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
James H. Baugh House	0.1 miles	2012
Fruitdale Grade School	0.4 miles	2013
Tower of Memories	2.3 miles	1987
Reno Park Addition Historic District	2.6 miles	1999
Crown Hill Burial Park	2.6 miles	2008
Russell-Graves House	2.6 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 83 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.