Lake City Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Lake City is a statutory town that is the county seat of, the most populous community in, and the only incorporated municipality in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States. The population was 432 at the 2020 census.”
Wikipedia article Lake City, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hinsdale County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Bluff, Eighth, Lake, and First Streets, Lake City, 81235
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. district
Also known as. Hinsdale County Metal Mining MPS
Census division. Lake City
National Register reference number. 78000859 - 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lake City Historic District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CRYSTAL LAKE
16 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	NELLY CREEK
15 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	SLUMGULLION CREEK
13 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	SPARLING
10 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	NELLY CREEK
4 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	LAKE CITY
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HENSON CREEK
2 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	WUPPERMAN

Every fire recorded in Hinsdale County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Lake City Historic District: 23 past producers, 22 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Antimony. 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
Belle of the West	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Belle of the West Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	1959
Black Crook	Lead, Zinc, Arsenic, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Contention Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Manganese, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Eckman Manganese Deposit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence
Fanny Fern Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	1952
Fanny Fern Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Unknown
Galena	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Gladiator Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Gold Quartz Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, Zinc, Tellurium	Past Producer	1951

Every working recorded in Hinsdale County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 debris flow, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 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
June 2019	Flood	Lake City	1 killed	A woman was swept into Pole Creek while trying to cross the stream with her husband in a Jeep. She was missing for almost a month before her body was found along the Rio Grande River on July 25th.
July 2014	Lightning	Lake City	2 hurt, $300	Two ultramarathon runners from Canada were struck by lightning on Handies Peak at about the 14,050 foot level while competing in the 100-mile Handrock Endurance Run. Both men incurred minor injuries. The headlamp of one runner exploded when struck by the lightning.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake City	$50,000	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Lake City	$30,000	no account filed
August 2019	Debris Flow	Lake City	$5,000	Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain which led to multiple mudslides along County Road 30 near Cinnamon Pass. The road was closed for an extended period of time. Several vehicles were stuck behind the mudslide and the occupants had to be rescued by Search and Rescue.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Lake City	$2,000	no account filed
August 1999	Flash Flood	Lake City	$1,000	no account filed
August 2025	Hail	Lake City	-	A strong storm developed 7 miles south-southwest of Lake City producing pea to dime size hail with a few nickel size hailstones around 1045 MST.
August 2024	Debris Flow	Lake City	-	Colorado Department of Transportation reported the closure of Colorado State Highway 149 at mile marker 74, roughly 1 mile north-northwest of Lake City, due to a mudslide. This area is very steep, and prone to rock and mudslides with either prolonged moderate to heavy rainfall, or short but intense heavy rainfall.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Lake City	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in a rockslide across Highway 30 between Highway 149 and Lake San Cristobal.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Lake City	-	Heavy rainfall near Lake City with amounts of over and inch caused flash flooding which closed Highway 149 and deposited a large amount of debris onto the road.
August 2013	Debris Flow	Lake City	-	A debris flow caused by heavy rainfall closed Highway 149 between mile markers 77 and 79 for several hours.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake City	-	Thunderstorm winds gusts estimated up to 60 mph broke off tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter at Lake City.

Every storm recorded in Hinsdale 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Ute-Ulay Mine and Mill	3.4 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000859 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hinsdale County	All 6 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.