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Photograph of Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21
Photograph by Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21 is a streetcar in Fort Collins, Colorado, listed on the U.S. Built in 1919 by the American Car Company for the Fort Collins Municipal Railway, it is a type of streetcar known as a Birney "Safety Car".”

Wikipedia article Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1801 West Mountain Ave., Fort Collins, 80521
  • When was it listed? January 1984
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Fort Collins
  • National Register reference number. 84000860 - 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

514 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21 between 2003 and 2019, burning about 2,099 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/undetermined431
Smoking29
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural10
Fireworks7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21: 16 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence
Unnamed PitClayProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Colo Lien CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fort CollinsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State LeaseStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Collins, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1996LightningFort Collins3 hurtno account filed
June 1996LightningFort Collins1 hurtno account filed
August 1996LightningFort Collins$50,000no account filed
July 1994HailFort Collins$50,000no account filed
June 1996LightningFort Collins$10,000no account filed
July 1994HailFort Collins$5,000Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County.
June 1995HailFort Collins-Lightning struck a south Fort Collins house leaving a gaping hole in the roof.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Collins-Thunderstorm winds downed two large cottonwoods in West Fort Collins.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Fort Collins-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field northwest of Fort Collins. No damage or injuries was reported.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph (50 knots) north of Fort Collins.
September 1996FloodFort Collins-no account filed
June 1995HailFort Collins-no account filed
June 1994HailFort Collins-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-no account filed
June 1994HailFort Collins-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ernest Waycott House0.3 miles1993
Patterson House1.0 miles2019
Jay H. Bouton House1.3 miles1978
T. H. Robertson House1.4 miles1992
Avery House1.5 miles1972
Peter Anderson House1.5 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer CountyAll 110 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.