Alpine Tunnel Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along the Denver, South Park and Pacific RR tracks from Quartz to Hancock, Pitkin, 81241
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. district
Census division. Gunnison
National Register reference number. 80004632 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Alpine Tunnel Historic District between 1992 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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	3
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ALPINE
2 August 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	not named
20 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MIDDLE QUARTZ
2 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MIDDLE QUARTZ
18 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MIDDLE QUARTZ
12 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GRANITE MOUNTAIN
19 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
11 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Alpine Tunnel Historic District: 19 occurrences, 17 producers, 14 past producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alpine Tunnell Old	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Ben Franklin	Copper, Lead, Silver	Producer	Vein
Bon Ton	Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Producer	Vein
Bonus Extension	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica	Occurrence	Beryl, Columbite, Muscovite, Tantalite
Brittle Silver	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Citizen	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Producer	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
Complex	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Tungsten, Gold	Producer	Vein
Emma H	Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver	Producer	Vein
Gold Hill	Molybdenum, Tungsten, Lead, Silver, Gold	Producer	Huebnerite, Molybdenite
Gold Hill Cumberland Pass	Molybdenum, Tungsten, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Huebnerite, Marmatite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pitkin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 hail. 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
July 2000	Hail	Pitkin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004632 in Record Group 79.
Gunnison County	All 21 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.