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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ben Quick Ranch and Fort
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Quick, Ben, Ranch and Fort - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 6695 W. Plum Creek Rd., Palmer Lake, 80118
- When was it listed? October 1974
- Category. site
- Census division. Castle Rock
- National Register reference number. 74000577 - 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
100 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Ben Quick Ranch and Fort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 24 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 | 51 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Douglas County | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | not named |
| 26 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Castle Rock Fire & Rescue Department | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | not named |
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Douglas County | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ben Quick Ranch and Fort: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Mica, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churchill | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Devils Head Copper | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Larkspur | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Perry Park | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Three Muskateers | REE, Mica, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz | Producer | Biotite, Fluorite, Monazite, Quartz | |
| Unknown | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Ware | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Larkspur Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Grove School | 0.3 miles | 1974 | |
 | John Kinner House | 0.5 miles | 1974 |
 | Reginald Sinclaire House | 0.6 miles | 1991 |
 | American Federation of Human Rights Headquarters | 4.3 miles | 1998 |
 | Church of St. Philip-in-the-Field and Bear Canon Cemetery | 7.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Devils Head Lookout | 7.9 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000577 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas 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.