Virginia Dale Stage Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Off US 287, Virginia Dale, 80536
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Census division. Timnath-Wellington
National Register reference number. 85002562 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Virginia Dale Stage Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
18 September 2018	Natural	50 acres	Rawlins Field Office	PUMPKIN VINE
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WILLOW CREEK
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Larimer County	TWO BEARS
5 August 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Livermore Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Livermore Fire Protection District	N/A
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LIVERMORE
3 July 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Larimer County	not named
15 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MILL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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 Virginia Dale Stage Station: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Titanium, Iron, Uranium. 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	Recorded
Bucaneer Prospect	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Iron, Malachite
Smaller Deposit #12-Iron Mtn area	Titanium, Iron	Prospect	Magnetite, Ilmenite
Tie Siding Pegmatite No. 3	Uranium	Prospect

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002562 in Record Group 79.
Larimer County	All 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.