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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Salida Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Arkansas River, RR Track, 3rd and D Sts., Salida, 81201
- When was it listed? June 1984
- Category. district
- Census division. Salida
- National Register reference number. 84000800 - 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
114 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Salida Downtown Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 16 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 | 74 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | DEAD HORSE |
| 23 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | UTE PILE |
| 22 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Salida Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Arkansas Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 10 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LONGS GULCH |
| 8 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 31 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Arkansas Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Salida Downtown Historic District: 30 past producers, 23 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Tungsten, Copper, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonus Extension Group | Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica, Feldspar | Producer | 1955 | |
| Cleora District | Copper, Tungsten, Gold | Past Producer | 1870 | |
| Grand View Mine | Copper, Tungsten, Gold | Past Producer | 1890, 1905 | |
| Marvel | Mica | Occurrence | Mica | |
| Polly No 4 | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| R D H Mill | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Salt Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Sedalia Mine | Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1878, 1883, 1923 | |
| Shirley Group | Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Feldspar, Mica | Occurrence | Albite, Beryl, Microcline, Muscovite | |
| Unknown | Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | Metamorphic |
Storms near this property
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salida, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Lightning | Salida | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Salida | - | A boulder the size of an engine was reported to have fallen into the road of Highway 285. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Salida | - | County roads 110 and 111 were washed out. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Salida | - | Emergency management reported county roads 107 and 107A were flooded. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Salida | - | County Highway 101 is washed out near junction of Highway 50. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Salida | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of several county roads around Salida, including County Roads 107, 108, 111, and 291. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Salida | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Salida | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Lightning | Salida | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | F Street Bridge | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | F.A. Jackson House | 0.2 miles | 1999 |
| First Baptist Church of Salida | 0.2 miles | 2024 | |
 | E.W. Corbin House | 0.3 miles | 1996 |
 | Garret and Julia Gray Cottage | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Manhattan Hotel | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84000800 in Record Group 79. |
| Chaffee County | All 46 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.
- 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.