Robison Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 12 Riverside Dr., Canon City, 81212
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. building
Census division. Cañon City
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 84000022 - 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

719 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 719 fires within 5 miles of Robison Mansion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 3 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	590
Natural	52
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	13
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Robison Mansion: 21 past producers, 18 producers, 10 occurrences, 4 prospects. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Uranium. 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
Border Feldspar	Feldspar, Silica, Mica	Past Producer
Border Feldspar Prospect	Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Bismuth, Beryllium	Past Producer	Beryl, Bismutite, Feldspar, Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz
Colonna	Marble, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Copper King Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1901, 1908
Cotter Mill (facility)	Uranium, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Dawson Gold Project	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Prospect
Dawson Mountain-Surprise Group	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1902
Devils Hole Quarry	Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar	Producer
Eight Mile Park District	Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth	Past Producer	Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz, Beryl
Horse Shoe & El Ploma	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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

6 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
Canon City State Armory	0.3 miles	1999
Deputy Warden's House	0.3 miles	2001
Greenwood Cemetery	0.4 miles	2013
Colorado Women's Prison	0.4 miles	1999
McClure House	0.4 miles	1979
US Post Office and Federal Building-Canon City Main	0.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000022 in Record Group 79.
Fremont County	All 25 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.