Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
“The Hanging Flume was an open water chute built over the Dolores River Canyon in Colorado. The Montrose Placer Mining Company built the flume in the 1880s to facilitate gold mining.”
Wikipedia article Hanging Flume, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Hanging Flume between 1993 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 61 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 | 61 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | NORTH STAR |
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | ATKINSON M |
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | LONG MESA |
| 19 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | ATKIN |
| 13 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | ATKINSON |
| 8 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | UNIWEEP |
| 8 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | SAUCER |
| 7 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | DIP |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 361 workings within 5 miles of Hanging Flume: 218 past producers, 67 occurrences, 38 producers, 36 unknowns. 38 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club Group | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Star #3 Mine | Tantalum, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| U.S. Vanadium Corp. Salt Works | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Worcester Mine | Uranium, Gold, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Chipeta Placer District | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | 1884 | |
| Vixen Placer District | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | 1885 | |
| Frontier Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uravan, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 debris flow, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2006 | Lightning | Uravan | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Debris Flow | Uravan | $5,000 | A debris flow occurred along Colorado Highway 141 between mile markers 69 through 79 as a result of heavy rains. The road was closed for several hours due to cleanup operations. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Uravan | $1,000 | Rapid snowmelt led the Dolores River to overrun its banks. This led to flooding across Y11 Road in Montrose County, near Uravan. |
| August 2021 | Debris Flow | Uravan | $1,000 | The Colorado Department of Transportation reported Colorado Highway 141 had alternating traffic due to mudslide clean-up between County Road Y11 and County Road Q12. |
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Uravan | - | Heavy rains resulted in erosion of the Highway 141 bridge at mile marker 85.6 over Mesa Creek, roughly 8 miles northwest of Uravan. CDOT closed Highway 141 in both directions on August 12 at 1010 MST, nearly 24 to 36 hours after the inciting debris flow and scouring due to the compromised bridge. |
| July 2013 | Debris Flow | Uravan | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide over Highway 141 near Uravan. |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Uravan | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Uravan | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Uravan | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dolores River Bridge | 7.8 miles | 2002 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000917 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Montrose County | All 28 listed properties in this county. |
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