Littlejohn Mine Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. SW of Granite, Granite, 81211
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Buena Vista
National Register reference number. 78000835 - 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Littlejohn Mine Complex between 1993 and 2019, burning about 15 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2

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 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FRENCHMAN CREEK
9 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FIG
5 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	CLEAR CREEK
24 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	390
22 August 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BELLFORD
14 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DIRTY OLD MAN
6 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	MISSOURI
20 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Littlejohn Mine Complex: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Tungsten, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Madelina #2	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Madeline #2	Lead, Tungsten, Cobalt	Producer	Lead
Madeline Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Magdalene Mine	Manganese	Past Producer
Mt. Harvard	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Wapaca	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Savage Placer	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Vicksburg Mining Camp	4.6 miles	1977
McFadden Barn	5.3 miles	2022
McFadden Brothers Ranch East Headquarters	6.0 miles	2023
Pine Hall	6.8 miles	2016
Commercial Hotel	6.8 miles	2015
Winfield Mining Camp	7.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000835 in Record Group 79.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.