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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1980 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Winfield Mining Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. 15 mi. NW of Buena Vista, Buena Vista, 81211
- When was it listed? March 1980
- Category. site
- Census division. Buena Vista
- National Register reference number. 80000883 - 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
15 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Winfield Mining Camp between 1993 and 2019, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | WINFIELD PEAK |
| 7 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | CLEAR CREEK |
| 23 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LOIS LAKE |
| 22 August 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BELLFORD |
| 18 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | ITALIAN #1 |
| 18 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | ITALIAN #2 |
| 10 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LAPLATA GULCH |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 26 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Winfield Mining Camp: 16 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banker Mine | Molybdenum, Bismuth | Occurrence | Bismuthinite, Molybdenite | |
| Banker Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Fortune | Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Last Dollar | Silver, Bismuth, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Little Guy | Molybdenum, Nickel | Past Producer | ||
| Mike Rabbit | Copper, Bismuth | Prospect | ||
| Swiss Boy Dump | Lead, Silver, Uranium, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Swiss Boy Mine | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Swiss Boy, Silver Crop | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Clear Creek | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Vein |
Storms near this property
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buena Vista, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | 2 hurt, $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Lightning | Buena Vista | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | $20,000 | Flash flooding occurred, which brought 2 to 3 feet of standing water and mud in low lying residental areas of Buena Vista. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | - | Heavy rainfall washed out County road 371, from a small drainage which flows across the road. Two cars were stuck in the mud. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | - | County road 304 was washed out. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | - | A flash flood and mud flow on US Highway 285 near Johnson Village made the road impassible for a time. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | - | The ongoing mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass road, causing a threat to motorists, campers, and nearby homeowners. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Buena Vista | - | In total, five mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass Road (CR 306) about one mile west of the hot springs pool. The mud on the road ranged from two to 14 feet deep. Cottonwood Hot Springs and several residences needed to be evacuated as a precaution. |
| July 2004 | Lightning | Buena Vista | - | While no humans were affected, a pig was struck by lightning and killed. The pig was a prized swine, scheduled to be entered in the 4-H competition at the Chaffee County Fair. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buena Vista | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Vicksburg Mining Camp | 3.5 miles | 1977 |
| Littlejohn Mine Complex | 7.1 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000883 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| 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.
- 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.