Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex is a collection of historic buildings in Como, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Off U.S. 285, Como, 80432
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Census division. Fairplay
National Register reference number. 83003880 - 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Smoking	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
21 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
17 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Park County	not named
16 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
17 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Jefferson-Como Fire Protection District	N/A
16 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
15 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	RASPBERRY
4 May 2017	Smoking	14 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	8 MILE
28 May 2004	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	WILLYS

Every fire recorded in Park 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 Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Fortune Placer Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Iron Hill Placer	Gold, Platinum	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cline Bench Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Fortune Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Peabody Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Park 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Como School	0.3 miles	2000
Como Cemetery	0.8 miles	2017
Jefferson Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Depot	6.4 miles	1998
Wahl Ranch	7.5 miles	2000
Boreas Railroad Station Site	7.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003880 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park 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.