Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Green Mountain Ranch, located southwest on Deckers Road from Buffalo Creek, Colorado, was built around 1900 by Edwin Eugene Culver. There are only two remaining buildings, as the rest were torn down in the construction of Highway 126.”
Wikipedia article Green Mountain Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74000582- 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
232 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Green Mountain Ranch
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,495 acres in total. 135 started naturally. 6 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
Natural
135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
40
Recreation and ceremony
33
Debris and open burning
6
Arson/incendiarism
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Firearms and explosives use
3
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Green Mountain Ranch: 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium. 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
Buffalo Creek, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
Heavy rain, up to 3 inches in an hour, caused a flash flood along Buffalo Creek, Portions of County Road 126, just south of the town of Buffalo Creek, were washed out. The floodwaters near washed away the bridge as mud and debris slammed into the structure. It was almost 2 years to the day that a deadly flash flood rushed through the small town killing 2 residents.
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
3 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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