Holzwarth Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. N of Grand Lake on Trail Ridge Rd., Grand Lake, 80447
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. district
Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA (AD); Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
Census division. Granby
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 77000112 - 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Holzwarth Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 696 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
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
18 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Rocky Mountain National Park	ONAHU
31 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	ONAHU CREEK
14 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BEAVER CREEK
4 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BOWEN BAKER TRAIL
30 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	DEVILS PT.
26 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	DICK ROAD
25 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	JACKSTRAW
22 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BOWEN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Holzwarth Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Gold. 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
Wolverine Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold	Producer	Vein
Wolverine Mine	Tungsten	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
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 247	0.7 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 245	0.8 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246	0.8 miles	1988
Timber Creek Road Camp Barn	0.8 miles	1987
Little Buckaroo Ranch Barn	2.9 miles	2009
Grand River Ditch	3.8 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000112 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.