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Photograph of United Church of Christ of Highlandlake
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

United Church of Christ of Highlandlake

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The United Church of Christ of Highlandlake is a historic church near Mead, Colorado. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

Wikipedia article United Church of Christ of Highlandlake, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 16896 Weld CR 5, Mead, 80542
  • When was it listed? February 1989
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Johnstown-Milliken
  • National Register reference number. 88002237 - 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of United Church of Christ of Highlandlake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined134
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Natural3

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
7 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of United Church of Christ of Highlandlake: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Helmer BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mead, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 15 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025HailMead-Report from Mping.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Mead-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
July 1999Flash FloodMead-Heavy rain, up to 4 inches in less than 2 hours, caused flash flooding in Mead. Although no residents were evacuated, several basements were flooded with water and mud. Most of the streets in town were covered with up to 5 inches of standing water.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMead-no account filed
June 2019HailMead-no account filed
June 2019HailMead-no account filed
June 2019HailMead-no account filed
September 2019HailMead-no account filed
August 2019HailMead-no account filed
June 2018HailMead-no account filed
June 2018HailMead-no account filed
June 2018HailMead-no account filed
May 2018HailMead-no account filed
May 2018HailMead-no account filed
August 2018HailMead-no account filed
August 2018HailMead-no account filed
May 2006HailMead-no account filed
June 2001HailMead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Little Thompson River Bridge4.0 miles2002
Anderson Barn6.8 miles2004
Sandstone Ranch6.8 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002237 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Weld CountyAll 36 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.
  • 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.