Little Church in the Pines

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Little Church in the Pines is a c. 1902-1908 building in the former mining town of Salina in Boulder County, Colorado. The church held regular Sunday School classes for children, and services whenever a traveling minister came to town.”
Wikipedia article Little Church in the Pines, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder 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. 414 Gold Run Rd., Salina, 80302
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. building
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. 89000983 - 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Little Church in the Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,714 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 9 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	147
Natural	57
Recreation and ceremony	29
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Boulder Fire Rescue Department	UNKNOWN
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	HAWKINS
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 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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	BOULDER

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 539 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 539 workings within 5 miles of Little Church in the Pines: 319 past producers, 165 occurrences, 47 producers, 5 unknowns. 47 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
Alice Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
Beryl #2	Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica	Producer	Beryl, Feldspar, Mica
Beryl No.1 & 2 Claims	Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar	Past Producer
Black Hope No One	REE	Past Producer
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
Copper King Mine	Cobalt, Copper, Nickel	Past Producer	1880, 1940
Copper King Nickel Mine	Cobalt, Nickel, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Elkhorn Prospect	Feldspar, Mica	Occurrence

Every working 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
Salina School	under 500 feet	1989
Snowbound Mine	1.3 miles
Gold Hill Historic District	1.8 miles	1989
Boulder Creek Bridge	4.0 miles	2003
Jamestown Town Hall	4.4 miles	2003
Jamestown Town Hall (Boundary Increase)	4.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000983 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.