Everhardt Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Everhardt Ranch, located in southeast of Evergreen, Colorado, dates from 1867. A portion of the ranch with three of its historic buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Everhardt Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Evergreen, Evergreen, 80439
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Census division. Central Jefferson
National Register reference number. 80000903 - 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

188 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Everhardt Ranch between 1995 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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	169
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	INDIAN HILLS
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	IDLEDALE
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indian Hills Fire/Rescue	UNKNOWN
23 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Evergreen Fire/Rescue	UNKNOWN
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
15 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Everhardt Ranch: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Feldspar, Clay, Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Garnet, Gemstone. 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
Augusta Mine	Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Cobalt	Past Producer	1966
Bear Creek	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Bigger Mica Mine	Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Uranium, Bismuth, Niobium (Columbium), REE, Tin, Tantalum	Past Producer	1884, 1935
Bigger Mica Mine	Feldspar, Quartz, Beryllium	Past Producer
Blackstone Claim	Uranium, Radium, Vanadium	Prospect
Buckman Ranch Pegmatite	Iron, Beryllium, Gemstone, Quartz, Garnet, Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence	Beryl, Feldspar, Garnet, Magnetite, Mica, Quartz, Tourmaline
Evergreen Florite Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Foothills	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Idledale District	Uranium, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1955, 1968
Iowa Gulch	Quartz, Feldspar, Mica, Gemstone, Garnet, Iron	Occurrence	Biotite, Garnet, Magnetite, Microcline, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Tourmaline

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evergreen, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 9 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2001	Lightning	Evergreen	$1,000,000	Lightning ignited a fire which destroyed a luxury home on Bear Mountain near Evergreen.
April 2003	Lightning	Evergreen	$100,000	Lightning struck a chimney at a residence in Hiwan, sending stones flying as far as 150 feet. Electrical equipment in some nearby homes also failed. Damage to the residence, in addition to electrical equipment, was estimated to be $100,000.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Evergreen	$20,000	Heavy rainfall, nearly two inches in one hour, flooded several residences. In addition, several bridges along Forest Estate Road were washed out.
June 2002	Lightning	Evergreen	$5,000	Lightning damaged the Evergreen Fire Protection District (EFPD) repeater. One microwave transmitter, the main fire channel transmitter and two solor panel controllers were ruined.
May 2011	Lightning	Evergreen	$1,000	Lightning struck a park ranger's office and destroyed a nearby gasoline storage tank.
August 2008	Lightning	Evergreen	$1,000	no account filed
May 2006	Lightning	Evergreen	-	A lightning strike sparked a fire at a recreation center in Evergreen. The roof of the building was damaged. In addition, the small fire that was ignited also spread into some brush. The ensuing brush fire consumed about one quarter of an acre.
August 2002	Lightning	Evergreen	-	Lightning struck a home causing extensive damage.
June 1999	Lightning	Evergreen	-	Lightning sparked two small fires at separate residences near the Hiwan Country Club.
August 2025	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Evergreen	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Evergreen	-	no account filed
July 1996	Lightning	Evergreen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Evergreen Conference District	3.1 miles	1979
Corwina Park, O'Fallon Park, Pence Park	3.2 miles	1990
Hiwan Homestead	3.6 miles	1974
Dedisse Park	3.7 miles	1990
Midway House	3.8 miles	1990
Little Park	4.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000903 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 83 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.