Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Cozens Ranch House in Fraser, Colorado was built by William (Billy) Cozens, sheriff of Central City after he married Mary York. Mary insisted that they leave the wild mining town, so the Cozens family relocated to Grand County, where they started a ranch in 1874.”
Wikipedia article Cozens Ranch House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000709- 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
68 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Cozens Ranch House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Recreation and ceremony
18
Smoking
4
Natural
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Debris and open burning
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
9 September 2017
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
East Grand County Fire Protection District #4
UNKNOWN
8 September 2020
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
East Grand County Fire Protection District #4
N/A
8 September 2017
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
East Grand County Fire Protection District #4
UNKNOWN
8 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Northwest District, Craig
CLEAR CUT
4 September 2013
Natural
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
D3
3 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
MARY JANE
19 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
Northwest District, Craig
HURD CREEK
26 August 2020
Smoking
under an acre
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Cozens Ranch House: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fraser, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
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
1 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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