Rock Creek Stage Station

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1880.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Toponas off CO 84, Toponas, 80479
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Census division. Yampa
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 82004860 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek Stage Station between 1994 and 2019, burning about 106 acres in total. 6 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HORSE CREEK
5 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BLACKTAIL
16 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LAGUNITA LAKE
16 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	COBERLY
2 July 1994	Natural	30 acres	Eagle County	not named
2 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Eagle County	not named
30 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SHOE
15 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	75 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toponas, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2004: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Toponas	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toponas	-	no account filed
August 2000	Wildfire	Toponas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Routt 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 82004860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Routt County	All 26 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.
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.