North Fork Historic District

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: District.

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

The listing

Address. Both sides of South Platte River from Pine to South Platte, in Red Pike National Forest, Pine and South Platte, 80425
When was it listed? October 1974
Category. district
Census division. South Jefferson
National Register reference number. 74000586 - 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,782 acres in total. 126 started naturally. 3 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	126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Recreation and ceremony	14
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	North Fork Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SANDY
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	538
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Fork Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	LONG SCRAGGY
4 September 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Fork Fire Protection District	N/A
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Fork Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of North Fork Historic District: 25 producers, 20 past producers, 14 occurrences, 8 unknowns. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Alpha	Gold	Past Producer
Big Bear No. 2 Mine	Feldspar, REE	Past Producer	Microcline
Billiken and Black Knight Lodes	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	1900
Buffalo Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1895, 1898
Butte #1	Feldspar, Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer	Fluorite, Quartz
Catherine #1 Claim	Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Feldspar, Quartz	Occurrence	Fluorite, Mica, Quartz, Topaz
Cook Property	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Sphalerite
Cooper Quarry	Quartz, Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REE	Past Producer	1968
Dazie Bell Mine	Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Manganese	Past Producer	1965
Delbert Claims #1 & 2	Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer	Feldspar, Fluorite, Mica, Quartz

Every working 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

4 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
La Hacienda	1.6 miles	1973
Green Mercantile Store	1.9 miles	1974
North Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase)	1.9 miles	2008
Blue Jay Inn	2.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000586 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 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.