Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“Giddings Building is a four-story building in downtown Colorado Springs. When it was built in 1898, it was the tallest building in Colorado Springs.”
Wikipedia article Giddings Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
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 1,943 fires within 5 miles of Giddings Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,478 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 10 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 | 1706 |
| Smoking | 85 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Fireworks | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Giddings Building: 23 producers, 12 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Hill Mesa tailings | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | tailings | |
| Kenmuir | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Trail | Thorium | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite, Gold | |
| Unknown | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Garden of the Gods | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Glen Eyrie | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| North Cheyenne District | Gold | Occurrence | 1909 | |
| Thanas & Brown | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Unknown | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Limestone |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colorado Springs, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Colorado Springs | - | A tornado briefly touched down twice just southeast of the downtown Colorado Springs, first near the intersection of Hancock and Las Animas and then at the Fountain View Apartments, at the intersection of Hutchinson Drive and Fountain Blvd. Several windows were shattered in the apartment complex, and a 30-foot maple tree was toppled, cutting power lines to the apartment complex and damaging a nearby automobile. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the dime-size hail. The slow moving storm dropped up to three inch rainfall amounts at some locations. A few areas measured rainfall rates of over one inch in 20 minutes. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colorado Springs | - | Lightning triggered a minor housefire in the attic. Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous tree limbs which damaged parked cars. In addition, larger branches blocked rush hour traffic along some roads. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs). |
| September 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | ,,,,,,,,Flash Flooding Thunderstorms containing hail up to 1 inch in diameter and very heavy rains moved over most of the city of Colorado Springs. Rain fell at the rate of four inches per half hour in isolated locations across the city. Hail accumulated to 6 to 9 inches deep near Garden of the Gods west of Colorado Springs. Snow plows were called out at several locations to remove accumulated hail. Four to five feet of water on one city street stranded six people in their cars who needed to be rescued. Water at Templeton Gap Floodway was 10 to 15 feet deep and 100 feet wide. 100 people were evacuated from Campers Village Mobile Home Park, where water rose rapidly to a depth of four feet. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs). |
| May 1996 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Mary's Catholic Church | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Colorado Springs Public Library-Carnegie Building | 0.5 miles | 1996 |
 | Chadbourn Spanish Gospel Mission | 0.5 miles | 2009 |
| Boulder Crescent Place Historic District | 0.6 miles | 1987 | |
 | DeGraff Building | 0.6 miles | 1983 |
| Dr. Isaac E. and Katherine C. Moore House | 0.6 miles | 2025 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83001294 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| El Paso County | All 98 listed properties in this county. |
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