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Photograph of United States Post Office-Manitou Springs Main
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Manitou Springs Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“US Post Office-Manitou Springs Main or Manitou Springs Post Office is a historic building located on Canon Avenue in Manitou Springs, Colorado. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office-Manitou Springs Main, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso 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

  • Listed as. US Post Office--Manitou Springs Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 307 Canon Ave., Mainitou Springs, 80829
  • When was it listed? January 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in Colorado, 1900-1941, TR
  • Census division. Monument
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000181 - 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

580 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 580 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Manitou Springs Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,776 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined483
Natural27
Recreation and ceremony22
Smoking19
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2018Smokingunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestEAGLE LAKE
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCAMP #1

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Manitou Springs Main: 30 producers, 16 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Black CanyonMagnesite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Black CanyonStone, Crushed/Broken, MagnesitePast Producer
Blair Athol MineCopper, Uranium, ManganesePast ProducerChalcocite
Camp Creek MineSilver, GoldOccurrence
Castle Concrete Lennox BMagnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crystal Park AreaBeryllium, Gemstone, Niobium (Columbium), REEProducerAmazonstone, Zircon
Gold Hill Mesa tailingsGold, SilverPast Producertailings
KenmuirStone, DimensionProducer
South Apache Creek ProspectsUranium, VanadiumProspect
Springs Silica CoSilica, QuartzPast Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Cliff Houseunder 500 feet1980
Manitou Bathhouseunder 500 feet1979
Manitou Springs Bridges (2)0.1 miles1985
Barker House0.2 miles1979
Miramont0.2 miles1977
Wheeler Bank0.3 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000181 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso CountyAll 98 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.