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Photograph of Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246
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Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246

Built in 1939 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1939, National Park Service rustic, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/056595f0f8971ab12a3eeb541a40fa21.

Sources: 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.
  • Address. Timber Creek Campground, Estes Park, 80447
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
  • Census division. Granby
  • When was it built? 1939
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/056595f0f8971ab12a3eeb541a40fa21
  • National Register reference number. 87001132 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246 between 1994 and 2019, burning about 43 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism40 acresRocky Mountain National ParkONAHU
14 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkBEAVER CREEK
9 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFOREST CANYON
4 July 2012Smokingunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkBOWEN BAKER TRAIL
30 July 1995Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkDEVILS PT.
26 July 2003Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkDICK ROAD
25 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkJACKSTRAW
22 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBOWEN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Gold. 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
LuluGoldOccurrenceVein
Wolverine MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, GoldProducerVein
Wolverine MineTungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grand 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001132 in Record Group 79.
Grand CountyAll 22 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.