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Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“The Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District includes Early Commercial architecture in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
National Register reference number.84000801- 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
70 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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
26
Recreation and ceremony
13
Natural
10
Smoking
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Debris and open burning
2
Fireworks
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
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
8 September 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Central City Fire Department
N/A
4 September 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
not named
17 September 2019
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
BARBOUR FORK
17 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
SODA CREEK
9 August 2009
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
BALD MOUNTAIN
7 August 1996
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1,031 workings within 5 miles of Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District: 884 past producers, 66 producers, 58 occurrences, 20 unknowns.
67 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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