Cokedale Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Cokedale Historic District, in Cokedale, Colorado, is a 450 acres (1.8 km2) historic district which is roughly bounded by Church, Maple, Pine, Elm, and Spruce Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Cokedale Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Church, Maple, Pine, Elm, and Spruce Sts., Cokedale, 81082
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. district
Census division. Trinidad
National Register reference number. 85000083 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Cokedale Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined	15
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	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
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named
2 August 2013	Natural	3.0 acres	Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
23 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named
17 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fishers Peak Fire Protection District	N/A
12 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 June 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
29 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cokedale Historic District: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Trinidad Mine	Clay	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this property

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cokedale, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2017	Flash Flood	Cokedale	-	A strong storm produced flash flooding of county roads south of Starkville, with more than 6 inches of rushing water causing minor erosion.
July 2023	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Cokedale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Aultman House	6.1 miles	2007
McCormick House	6.1 miles	2009
Zion's German Lutheran Church	6.2 miles	2006
Frank Latuda House	6.3 miles	2010
First Methodist Episcopal Church	6.4 miles	2005
Carnegie Public Library	6.4 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas County	All 26 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.