Photograph of Hildebrand Ranch — Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hildebrande Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Hildebrand Ranch is located near Littleton, Colorado. In 1866 Frank and Elizabeth Hildebrand settled in Deer Creek and homesteaded on 160 acres.”
Wikipedia article Hildebrand Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7 mi. SW of Littleton off Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton, 80128
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. building
Census division. South Jefferson
National Register reference number. 75000524 - 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

301 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Hildebrande Ranch between 2003 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	222
Smoking	21
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Littleton Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LITTLETON
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Littleton Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
28 September 2011	Smoking	20 acres	Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge	INDIANA WF
27 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Hildebrande Ranch: 28 producers, 11 occurrences, 4 past producers, 4 unknowns. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Deer Creek Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
No Name Pegmatite	Feldspar	Producer
Rock Products No 2	Stone	Producer
Waterton Sand & Clay Co.	Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand
The Hogback Clay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Claypit	Clay	Producer
Duke Pit	Clay	Producer
Hogback #2 #3 #4	Clay	Producer

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John C. Shaffer Barn	3.8 miles	2019
Bradford House II	5.2 miles	2001
Peterson House	6.6 miles	1981
Fort, The	7.2 miles	2006
Schnell Farm	7.6 miles	1997
Stone House	7.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000524 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.