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Photograph of Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin
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Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin

Built in 1930 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1930, National Park Service rustic, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/ab98c8316fb6e5768d87ef4f6deb5641.

Sources: 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Thunder Lake, Estes Park, 80510
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
  • Census division. Upper St. Vrain
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/ab98c8316fb6e5768d87ef4f6deb5641
  • National Register reference number. 87001124 - 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 1993Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkCHICKADEE
7 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkMEADOW MOUNTAIN
30 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkLAKE FIRE
8 July 2007Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkMEEKER
25 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
24 July 1994Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSOLITUDE
10 July 2018Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkBASIN

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Grand Lake WolverineLead, Gold, Copper, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder 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

5 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
Thunder Lake Trail-Bluebird Lake Trail2.0 miles2008
Sandbeach Lake Trail4.1 miles2008
Wild Basin House4.3 miles1988
Wild Basin Ranger Station and House4.3 miles1988
Longhurst Lodge6.3 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001124 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boulder CountyAll 92 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.