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Southern Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
From the record
“The Southern Hotel, at 101 South Fifth Street in Dolores, Colorado, was built in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Southern Hotel (Dolores, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.89000018- 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
126 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Southern Hotel
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 40 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
Recreation and ceremony
55
Natural
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Debris and open burning
4
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
19 workings within 5 miles of Southern Hotel: 8 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Dolores, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Rapid snowmelt from the Dolores River led to various drainages breaching their banks. This resulted in flooded downtown residential buildings in the town of Dolores. The water also flooded streets, some yards, and school playgrounds. Flood waters did not recede for several days.
Heavy rain from thunderstorms produced minor flooding across Colorado Highway 184 and 27.8 road. Nearby CoCoRaHS rainfall reports ranged from 0.70 to 0.90 of an inch.
A persistent funnel cloud was seen just northeast of Cortez and traveled northeast about four miles before it dissipated over the Summit Ridge area. The funnel clouds was photographed and reported by many people.
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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