Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Kauffman House is a rustic log house in Grand Lake, Colorado that functioned as a hotel from its construction in 1892 to 1973. It was built by Ezra Kauffman, a local prospector, trapper and builder of log structures who operated it as a hotel until his death in 1920 at age 71.”
Wikipedia article Kauffman House (Grand Lake, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74000579- 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
69 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Kauffman House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 17 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
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Natural
17
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Smoking
2
Debris and open burning
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 2018
Natural
under an acre
Grand Lake Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
20 September 2015
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
SODA CREEK
18 September 2010
Arson/incendiarism
40 acres
Rocky Mountain National Park
ONAHU
15 September 2019
Natural
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
KAWUNEECHE
15 September 2019
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
SOUTH SUPPLY
12 September 2017
Natural
under an acre
Grand Lake Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
9 August 1995
Natural
under an acre
Rocky Mountain National Park
SUMMERLAND
6 August 2015
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Kauffman House: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
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.
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.
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