Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The Switzerland Trail is the site of a historic 3 ft narrow gauge railroad line that was operated at different times by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railway (GSL&P), the Colorado and Northwestern Railroad (C&N), and the Denver, Boulder, and Western Railroad (DB&W) around the turn of the 20th century in the Colorado Front Range mining area near Nederland, Gold Hill, and Ward. The west end of the trail is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District".”
Wikipedia article Switzerland Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
National Register reference number.80000882- 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
277 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,646 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 9 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
134
Recreation and ceremony
83
Natural
28
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Arson/incendiarism
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Debris and open burning
5
Smoking
2
Other causes
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
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Nederland Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
8 September 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
IA 657
8 September 2017
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
SITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Nederland Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
8 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Nederland Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
8 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Nederland Fire Protection District
UNKNOWN
8 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters
not named
7 September 2015
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
344 workings within 5 miles of Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District: 199 past producers, 98 occurrences, 35 producers, 7 unknowns.
36 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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