Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Station, in Creede, Colorado, was built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Creede station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 1976 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Creede at Wagon Wheel Gap off CO 149, Creede, 81130
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. building
Census division. Creede
National Register reference number. 76000563 - 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Station between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13

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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SODA
31 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	not named
28 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	RIVERSIDE
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	not named
31 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	BLUE PARK
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	PALISADE
20 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	BELLOWS 1
20 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	GOOSE

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Station: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wagon Wheel Gap	Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer	Barite
	Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	1911, 1913, 1950

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creede, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2008	Lightning	Creede	1 killed	no account filed
October 1997	Tornado (F2)	Creede	$10,000	no account filed
August 2024	Heavy Rain	Creede	-	Public reported 1.00 inch of total rainfall. Rain fell yesterday afternoon through last night.
August 2022	Debris Flow	Creede	-	Mud slide over highway 149 blocking northbound lane.

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort	1.1 miles	2019
	Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine and Mill	1.2 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000563 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral County	All 6 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.