William Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The William Smith House is a home located at 412 Oswego Ct. in Aurora, Colorado. William Smith arrived in Aurora, Colorado in 1882.”
Wikipedia article William Smith House (Aurora, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Smith, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 412 Oswego Ct., Aurora, 80010
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Census division. South Aurora
National Register reference number. 85002565 - 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

872 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 872 fires within 5 miles of William Smith House between 2010 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 42 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	686
Smoking	48
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Fireworks	24
Recreation and ceremony	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
6 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Aurora Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of William Smith House: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
H W Siddle Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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
Jamaica Primary School	0.9 miles	2017
Commandant of Cadets Building, US Air Force Academy	1.6 miles	2007
Gully Homestead	2.2 miles	1986
DeLaney Barn	2.3 miles	1989
South Dahlia Lane	5.6 miles	2025
Melvin School	7.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002565 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe 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.