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Photograph of Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station
Photograph by ERoss99, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station, at Victor Ave. and 9th St. in Goldfield, Colorado, was built in 1899. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”

Wikipedia article Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Teller County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1899.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Victor Ave. and 9th St., Goldfield, 80860
  • When was it listed? May 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cripple Creek
  • When was it built? 1899
  • National Register reference number. 84000897 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTeller Countynot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersVICTOR
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficePONY GULCH
24 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
8 July 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeller Countynot named
7 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 512 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 512 workings within 5 miles of Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station: 487 past producers, 15 producers, 7 occurrences, 2 plants. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Gemstone. 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
Ajax MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon AnchorGold, Silver, TelluriumProducerVein
CaledoniaFeldsparPast ProducerUnderground
Cripple Creek DistrictGold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Mercury, TelluriumProducerCalaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite
Florence Lode ClaimGemstoneProducerTurquoise
Gedney TitaniumTitaniumPast Producer
Hull CityGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Portland No 2Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldOccurrence
Molly KathleenGold, SilverPast ProducerUnderground
UnknownGold, SilverProducer

Every working recorded in Teller 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill0.7 miles1993
Midland Terminal Railroad Depot1.0 miles1984
Victor Downtown Historic District1.0 miles1985
Victor Hotel1.1 miles1980
Cripple Creek Historic District3.6 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000897 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teller CountyAll 11 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.