Dutchtown

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Dutchtown was a mining community high in the Never Summer Mountains of what is now Rocky Mountain National Park. The ghost town lies just below the timberline, and comprises the ruins of four cabins.”
Wikipedia article Dutchtown, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1988 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Ditch Rd., Grand Lake, 80447
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. site
Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
Census division. Granby
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/edfebf63c2f7377a0f1a010ec86adaf7
National Register reference number. 76002292 - 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dutchtown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
14 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BEAVER CREEK
30 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	DEVILS PT.
25 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	JACKSTRAW
21 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	GDNGHTIREN
21 July 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BEAVER'S
20 July 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Rocky Mountain National Park	SHIPLER WFU
19 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	ASPEN LDGE
8 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	HOLZWARTH

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dutchtown: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc. 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
Lulu	Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown	Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Copper, Silver
Unknown	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown	Pumice	Unknown
Upper Jack Creek	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Flash Flood	Grand Lake	$25,000	Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Lake	-	Strong microburst winds damaged several boats at Grand Lake. Two large pontoon boats were lifted out of the water, one landed upside down near a home.

Every storm recorded in Grand 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
Grand River Ditch	1.2 miles	1976
Lulu City Site	1.8 miles	1977
Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House	3.8 miles	1987
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 245	4.3 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246	4.3 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 247	4.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002292 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand County	All 22 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.