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Photograph of Crystal Mill
Photograph by John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crystal Mill

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Crystal Mill, or the Old Mill is an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in Crystal, Colorado, United States. It is accessible from Marble, Colorado via four-wheel drive.”

Wikipedia article Crystal Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1893.

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. Cty. Rd. 3, 7 mi. SE of Marble, Crystal, 81623
  • When was it listed? July 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Somerset
  • When was it built? 1893
  • National Register reference number. 85001493 - 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Mill between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionPTX ASSIST 1
9 August 2017Naturalunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestHUNTER
30 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestMARBLE
27 July 2003Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestYULE CREEK
24 July 1992Naturalunder an acreWhite River National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 82 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 82 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Mill: 26 occurrences, 23 producers, 22 past producers, 11 unknowns. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Aspen-Riverside GroupGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Black EagleCopper, Zinc, Lead, SilverProducerSilver
Black Queen ShaftSilver, Gold, ZincPast Producer1889, 1893
BontonMolybdenum, CopperPast Producer
BrooklynGold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Catalpa MineLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
CatapalaCopper, Zinc, LeadProducerCopper, Lead
Copper King MineSilver, Gold, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Crystal TunnelLead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Don #2Lead, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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
Marble Jailhouse4.4 miles2016
Haxby House4.6 miles1996
Marble City State Bank Building4.6 miles1999
William D. Parry House4.6 miles1989
St. Paul's Church4.6 miles1989
Marble Mill Site4.8 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001493 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gunnison CountyAll 21 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.