Spruce Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Colorado State University campus, Fort Collins, 80521
When was it listed? January 1977
Category. building
Census division. Fort Collins
National Register reference number. 77000381 - 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

549 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 549 fires within 5 miles of Spruce Hall between 2003 and 2019, burning about 895 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	472
Smoking	29
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	FORT COLLINS
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	FORT COLLINS
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	FORT COLLINS
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	FORT COLLINS

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Spruce Hall: 14 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Graphite Nos 1 To 7	Graphite	Producer
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unnamed Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
Colo Lien Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fort Collins	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
State Lease	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Collins, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
October 1996	Lightning	Fort Collins	3 hurt	no account filed
June 1996	Lightning	Fort Collins	1 hurt	no account filed
August 1996	Lightning	Fort Collins	$50,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Fort Collins	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Lightning	Fort Collins	$10,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Fort Collins	$5,000	Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County.
June 1995	Hail	Fort Collins	-	Lightning struck a south Fort Collins house leaving a gaping hole in the roof.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	West Fort Collins	-	Thunderstorm winds downed two large cottonwoods in West Fort Collins.
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Fort Collins	-	Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field northwest of Fort Collins. No damage or injuries was reported.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Collins	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph (50 knots) north of Fort Collins.
September 1996	Flood	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Collins	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Collins	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Botanical and Horticultural Laboratory	under 500 feet	1978
Scott Apartments and Garage, The	0.2 miles	2022
Ammons Hall	0.2 miles	1978
Laurel School Historic District	0.3 miles	1980
Baker House	0.4 miles	1978
Montezuma Fuller House	0.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000381 in Record Group 79.
Larimer County	All 110 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.