Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Rifle Main Post Office, at Railroad Avenue and Fourth Street in Rifle, Colorado, United States, was built in 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Rifle, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1940.
Also known as. US Post Offices in Colorado, 1900-1941, TR
Census division. Rifle
When was it built? 1940
National Register reference number.86000186- 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
238 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 238 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Rifle Main
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 142 started naturally. 2 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
Natural
142
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
61
Recreation and ceremony
14
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
5
Debris and open burning
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Fireworks
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Rifle Main: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rifle, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 flash flood, 6 heavy rain, 5 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
Colorado Highway 325 was closed in both directions north of Rifle after heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide. Law enforcement personnel estimated a foot of mud was across the road.
Water runoff from heavy rain flowed across portions of County Roads 233 and 252 near Rifle Creek. Radar estimated rainfall near those locations ranged from about an inch to an inch and a half.
Colorado Highway 325 was closed in both directions in Rifle Gap between mile markers 6 and 8 due to a mudslide and flooding as a result of heavy rains. The Highway reopened 4 hours later.
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
3 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.
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.
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