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Photograph of Hiwan Homestead Museum
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Hiwan Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Meadow Dr., Evergreen, 80439
  • When was it listed? April 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Central Jefferson
  • National Register reference number. 74000583 - 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

213 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Hiwan Homestead between 1995 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined190
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersINDIAN HILLS
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersIDLEDALE
27 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWARRIOR MOUNTAIN
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndian Hills Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Hiwan Homestead: 18 past producers, 15 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Augusta MineCopper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CobaltPast Producer1966
Bear CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Blackstone ClaimUranium, Radium, VanadiumProspect
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
Coors PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, REEPast Producer1935, 1949
Evergreen Florite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
FoothillsGold, SilverPast Producer
Grapevine MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
Idealite MineClayPast Producer
Idledale DistrictUranium, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1955, 1968

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evergreen, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 9 lightning, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001LightningEvergreen$1,000,000Lightning ignited a fire which destroyed a luxury home on Bear Mountain near Evergreen.
April 2003LightningEvergreen$100,000Lightning struck a chimney at a residence in Hiwan, sending stones flying as far as 150 feet. Electrical equipment in some nearby homes also failed. Damage to the residence, in addition to electrical equipment, was estimated to be $100,000.
July 2014Flash FloodEvergreen$20,000Heavy rainfall, nearly two inches in one hour, flooded several residences. In addition, several bridges along Forest Estate Road were washed out.
June 2002LightningEvergreen$5,000Lightning damaged the Evergreen Fire Protection District (EFPD) repeater. One microwave transmitter, the main fire channel transmitter and two solor panel controllers were ruined.
May 2011LightningEvergreen$1,000Lightning struck a park ranger's office and destroyed a nearby gasoline storage tank.
August 2008LightningEvergreen$1,000no account filed
May 2006LightningEvergreen-A lightning strike sparked a fire at a recreation center in Evergreen. The roof of the building was damaged. In addition, the small fire that was ignited also spread into some brush. The ensuing brush fire consumed about one quarter of an acre.
August 2002LightningEvergreen-Lightning struck a home causing extensive damage.
June 1999LightningEvergreen-Lightning sparked two small fires at separate residences near the Hiwan Country Club.
August 2025HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2023HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2023HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2023HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2023HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2023HailEvergreen-no account filed
September 2019HailEvergreen-no account filed
May 2018HailEvergreen-no account filed
May 2018HailEvergreen-no account filed
May 2015HailEvergreen-no account filed
July 2011HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2010HailEvergreen-no account filed
July 2009HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2006HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2006HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2004HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2004HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 2004HailEvergreen-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEvergreen-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEvergreen-no account filed
August 2002HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 1999HailEvergreen-no account filed
June 1998HailEvergreen-no account filed
July 1996HailEvergreen-no account filed
July 1996LightningEvergreen-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Evergreen Conference District0.5 miles1979
Dedisse Park0.7 miles1990
Corwina Park, O'Fallon Park, Pence Park1.8 miles1990
Everhardt Ranch3.6 miles1980
Bergen Park4.0 miles1990
Fillius Park4.2 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000583 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 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.