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One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Modoc Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Ward, Ward, 80481
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Bald Mountain
- National Register reference number. 78000833 - 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
117 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Modoc Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 50 |
| Natural | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BEAVER |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LEFT HAND RESERVOIR |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-Boulder District | not named |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lefthand Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | TIMBERLINE FALLS |
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | MT. ALTO |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BRAINARD ROAD |
| 3 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LEFTHAND RESERVOIR |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 127 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 127 workings within 5 miles of Modoc Mill: 56 occurrences, 52 past producers, 10 producers, 5 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Tungsten. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brainard Lake Plant | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Glance | Gold, Copper | Producer | Vein | |
| Copper Glance | Gold, Talc-Soapstone | Unknown | ||
| Daisy | Gold, Tungsten | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Eldorado Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Fools Paradise Number 1 and 2 | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Golden Chest | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Last Chance | Gold, Mercury | Occurrence | Gold, Mercury | |
| Lora claims | Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Moon | Silver, Lead | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ward, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Lightning | Ward | 1 hurt | Lightning injured a man while talking on the telephone. The bolt passed through the phone line burning his ear. He received minor injuries. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Ward | $15,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the Fourmile burn area. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Ward | $5,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the Fourmile burn area. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Ward | - | Continuous heavy rainfall produced widespread flash flooding. The CO36 Turnpike was also submerged by 3 feet of water at Foothills Parkway. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ward | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ward | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ward Congregational Church | 0.6 miles | 1989 | |
 | Ward School | 0.6 miles | 1989 |
 | Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District | 4.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Gold Hill Historic District | 5.6 miles | 1989 |
 | Wall Street Assay Office | 6.7 miles | 1989 |
| Wall Street Assay Office (Boundary Increase) | 6.7 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000833 in Record Group 79. |
| Boulder County | All 92 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.