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Gold Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Gold Hill is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.”
Wikipedia article Gold Hill, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by North St., Pine St., Boulder St., Gold Run St., and College St., Gold Hill, 80302
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Metal Mining and Tourist Era Resources of Boulder County MPS; Metal Mining and Tourist Era Resources of Boulder County MPS
Census division. Bald Mountain
National Register reference number. 89000979 - 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Gold Hill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,815 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 7 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	78
Natural	48
Recreation and ceremony	30
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3
Other causes	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
8 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	IA 657
7 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	NORTH EAST SUGARLOAF
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6,382 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	FOURMILE CANYON
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lefthand Fire Protection District	N/A
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SLAUGHTERHOUSE
5 September 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Lefthand Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MT. ALTO
3 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Lefthand Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 533 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 533 workings within 5 miles of Gold Hill Historic District: 301 past producers, 174 occurrences, 49 producers, 6 unknowns. 49 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Argo	Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Vein
Argo	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Fluorspar, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite
Beryl #2	Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica	Producer	Beryl, Feldspar, Mica
Beryl Lode Claim	Beryllium, Feldspar	Past Producer
Beryl No.1 & 2 Claims	Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar	Past Producer
Black Hope No One	REE	Past Producer
Buckhorn	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Buena Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Krennerite, Gold, Sylvanite, Petzite
Castle Gulch	Gemstone, Silver	Past Producer
Cobalt Gold Mining Co	Nickel, Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this property

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Hill, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Gold Hill	-	Heavy rainfall produced minor flooding. Mud and rocks washed onto Left Hand Canyon Drive, between Gold Hill and Lee Hill Road.
July 2022	Hail	Gold Hill	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gold Hill	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Gold Hill	-	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gold Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Snowbound Mine	1.4 miles
Salina School	1.7 miles	1989
Little Church in the Pines	1.8 miles	1989
Jamestown Mercantile Building	3.9 miles	1989
Jamestown Town Hall	3.9 miles	2003
Jamestown Town Hall (Boundary Increase)	3.9 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000979 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boulder County	All 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.
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.