Twin Lakes District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Twin Lakes Historic District, in Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado, is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Twin Lakes District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Both sides of CO 82, Twin Lakes, 81251
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. district
Census division. Leadville
National Register reference number. 74000588 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 6 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
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
23 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
21 September 2010	Smoking	1.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SOUTH ELBERT
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	LILY POND
13 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FOREBAY
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	LODGEPOLE 2
1 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SNYDER FALLS
9 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SOUTH ELBERT
7 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ARLINGTON

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Twin Lakes District: 16 past producers, 15 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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
Bartlett Mines	Lead, Aluminum, Calcium	Past Producer
Smith-Bullard Mine	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Smith-Bullard Mines, Inc.	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Manganese	Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Quartz
Tom Thumb	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence
Hope Mountain	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Molybdite
Molybdenum Lode	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Vein
Bartell Mines	Lead	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Lightning	Twin Lakes	1 hurt	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Interlaken Resort District	1.9 miles	1974
Derry Mining Site Camp	3.5 miles	2000
Hayden Ranch Headquarters	4.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000588 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 10 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.