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Photograph of Florence Post Office
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Florence Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Pikes Peak St. in Florence, Colorado, was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as US Post Office-Florence Main.”

Wikipedia article Florence Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Florence Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 121 N. Pikes Peak St., Florence, 81226
  • When was it listed? January 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in Colorado, 1900-1941, TR
  • Census division. Florence
  • National Register reference number. 86000174 - 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Florence Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined221
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCANON CITY

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Florence Main: 27 producers, 15 past producers, 3 occurrences. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Artesian Well #22GeothermalProducer
Canon City DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Siderite
Oak CreekFeldspar, MicaProducer
White King, State RockSilicaProducer
Florence Perlite MillPerliteProducer
PersolitePerliteProducer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Annex 2aClayProducer
BeaconClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailFlorence$500Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
January 2024FloodFlorence-Received call from Mykel Kroll, Fremont County Emergency Manager, notifying us of some minor flooding occurring along the Arkansas River in Florence from an ice jam downstream. Inundation of low-lying areas mostly occurred between the river and County Rd 119 in the town of Florence. No other impacts reported.
August 2022Flash FloodFlorence-Flooding along CR 13A.
August 2022Flash FloodFlorence-Flooding along Hwy 115 near Pathfinder Park.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFlorence-Six power poles were blown down.
July 2020HailFlorence-Hail of 1.75 inches.
July 2018Flash FloodFlorence-State patrol reported that there was debris and flooding over highway 115 at mile marker 7.
August 1993HailFlorence-Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
August 1993HailFlorence-Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
June 2015HailFlorence-no account filed
June 2015HailFlorence-no account filed
September 2015HailFlorence-no account filed
July 2009HailFlorence-no account filed
August 2009HailFlorence-no account filed
May 2007HailFlorence-no account filed
June 2007HailFlorence-no account filed
June 2007HailFlorence-no account filed
August 2007HailFlorence-no account filed
August 2006HailFlorence-no account filed
May 2003HailFlorence-no account filed
July 2001HailFlorence-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodFlorence-no account filed
July 1995HailFlorence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Downtown Florence Historic Districtunder 500 feet2017
Florence High School0.2 miles2022
Main Street Bridge0.3 miles2002
Rio Grande Railroad Viaduct2.5 miles2002
Portland Bridge5.5 miles1985
Holy Cross Abbey6.0 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000174 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont CountyAll 25 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.