Seventeen Mile House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Seventeen Mile House is a historic site and open space located at 8181 S. It is a 33-acre former stagecoach stop with a square log structure covered with clapboard.”
Wikipedia article Seventeen Mile House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 8181 S. Parker Rd., Parker, 80016
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Census division. South Aurora
National Register reference number. 83003501 - 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

671 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 671 fires within 5 miles of Seventeen Mile House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 20 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	512
Smoking	42
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Natural	22
Arson/incendiarism	20
Fireworks	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Debris and open burning	7
Other causes	3

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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cunningham Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Douglas County	not named
4 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Seventeen Mile House: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay. 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
Madis	Clay	Past Producer
Cherry Creek Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Newlin Gulch Gold Occurrence	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Melvin School	4.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003501 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe 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.
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.