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One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lyons Sandstone Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. U.S. 36 and CO 7, Lyons, 80503
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. district
- Census division. Longmont
- National Register reference number. 80000880 - 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
116 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Lyons Sandstone Buildings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,530 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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 | 71 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Hygiene Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LITTLE NARROWS |
| 26 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lyons Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Royal Gorge Field Office | NARROWS |
| 12 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-Boulder District | not named |
| 8 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Hygiene Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 6 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Allenspark Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LYONS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 54 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Lyons Sandstone Buildings: 31 past producers, 13 producers, 10 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bat Claim No. 1 | Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Denver Rock Quarry | Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Howe | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Ohline | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Sisk Mine | Flagstone, Uranium | Past Producer | 1956 | |
| Sisk Property | Uranium, Molybdenum, Graphite | Occurrence | Graphite, Molybdenite, Pitchblende | |
| Loukonen Bros Silica Mine | Silica | Producer | ||
| Silica Quarry | Silica | Producer | ||
| Bat No. 1 Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Rose Mary | Uranium | Occurrence | Pitchblende |
Storms near this property
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Flood | Lyons | $100,000 | Heavy rain caused flooding of businesses along the Saint Vrain River in Lyons, south of Bohn Park. Several basements in Boulder County were reportedly flooded. Some flooding was also reported along Coal Creek, upstream of Erie. Road closures included the westbound lane of Arapahoe Road, between County Line Road and 119th Street. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Lyons | $15,000 | Heavy rain, with radar estimates up to 8 inches northwest of Longmont, forced numerous road closures. The heaviest rainfall occurred from around Lyons eastward along the Little Thompson River Basin. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Lyons | - | Continuous heavy rainfall produced widespread flash flooding in the Lyons, with life threatening conditions. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Lyons | - | Continuous heavy rainfall produced flash flooding. Rainfall amounts up to this point ranged from 4 to 7 inches over central Boulder County. People were trapped as several major creeks flooded including: Coal Creek, Left Hand Canyon, Fourmile Creek and St. Vrain Creek. People were reportedly trapped on their roofs. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lyons | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First Congregational Church of Lyons | 1.0 miles | 1976 |
 | Lyons Railroad Depot | 1.0 miles | 1974 |
 | North St. Vrain Creek Bridge | 1.1 miles | 2002 |
| Longmont Power Plant | 2.4 miles | 1987 | |
 | Church of the Brethren | 4.9 miles | 1984 |
 | Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ryssby | 6.0 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000880 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.