Lyons Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 400 block of Broadway, Lyons, 80540
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Longmont
National Register reference number. 74000563 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Lyons Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,559 acres in total. 22 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	63
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
6 September 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Hygiene Fire Protection District	N/A
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	LITTLE NARROWS
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BUTTON ROCK II
26 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lyons Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	COFFINTOP
2 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	NARROWS
15 September 2005	Natural	1.5 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	COFFINTOP 2
14 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	COFFIN TOP

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Lyons Railroad Depot: 30 past producers, 11 producers, 6 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Bat Claim No. 1	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer
Denver Rock Quarry	Tungsten	Past Producer
Howe	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Ohline	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Sisk Mine	Flagstone, Uranium	Past Producer	1956
Sisk Property	Uranium, Molybdenum, Graphite	Occurrence	Graphite, Molybdenite, Pitchblende
Loukonen Bros Silica Mine	Silica	Producer
Silica Quarry	Silica	Producer
Bat No. 1 Claim	Uranium	Occurrence
Rose Mary	Uranium	Occurrence	Pitchblende

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2015	Flood	Lyons	$100,000	Heavy rain caused flooding of businesses along the Saint Vrain River in Lyons, south of Bohn Park. Several basements in Boulder County were reportedly flooded. Some flooding was also reported along Coal Creek, upstream of Erie. Road closures included the westbound lane of Arapahoe Road, between County Line Road and 119th Street.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Lyons	$15,000	Heavy rain, with radar estimates up to 8 inches northwest of Longmont, forced numerous road closures. The heaviest rainfall occurred from around Lyons eastward along the Little Thompson River Basin.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Lyons	-	Continuous heavy rainfall produced widespread flash flooding in the Lyons, with life threatening conditions.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Lyons	-	Continuous heavy rainfall produced flash flooding. Rainfall amounts up to this point ranged from 4 to 7 inches over central Boulder County. People were trapped as several major creeks flooded including: Coal Creek, Left Hand Canyon, Fourmile Creek and St. Vrain Creek. People were reportedly trapped on their roofs.
June 2022	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
North St. Vrain Creek Bridge	0.1 miles	2002
First Congregational Church of Lyons	0.1 miles	1976
Lyons Sandstone Buildings	1.0 miles	1980
Longmont Power Plant	1.4 miles	1987
Church of the Brethren	5.9 miles	1984
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ryssby	6.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000563 in Record Group 79.
Boulder County	All 92 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.