Built in 1982. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“Peterson Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum located at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado focused on the history of the Air Defense Command, Aerospace Defense Command and Air Force Space Command.”
Wikipedia article Peterson Air and Space Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1996 · category: District · built in 1982.
National Register reference number.90001296- 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
1,083 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,083 fires within 5 miles of Colorado Springs Airport
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 12 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
949
Smoking
44
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Debris and open burning
19
Natural
16
Arson/incendiarism
12
Fireworks
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Recreation and ceremony
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
15 workings within 5 miles of Colorado Springs Airport: 12 producers, 3 occurrences.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Colorado Springs, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado briefly touched down twice just southeast of the downtown Colorado Springs, first near the intersection of Hancock and Las Animas and then at the Fountain View Apartments, at the intersection of Hutchinson Drive and Fountain Blvd. Several windows were shattered in the apartment complex, and a 30-foot maple tree was toppled, cutting power lines to the apartment complex and damaging a nearby automobile.
Very heavy rain accompanied the dime-size hail. The slow moving storm dropped up to three inch rainfall amounts at some locations. A few areas measured rainfall rates of over one inch in 20 minutes.
Lightning triggered a minor housefire in the attic. Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous tree limbs which damaged parked cars. In addition, larger branches blocked rush hour traffic along some roads.
Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs).
,,,,,,,,Flash Flooding Thunderstorms containing hail up to 1 inch in diameter and very heavy rains moved over most of the city of Colorado Springs. Rain fell at the rate of four inches per half hour in isolated locations across the city. Hail accumulated to 6 to 9 inches deep near Garden of the Gods west of Colorado Springs. Snow plows were called out at several locations to remove accumulated hail. Four to five feet of water on one city street stranded six people in their cars who needed to be rescued. Water at Templeton Gap Floodway was 10 to 15 feet deep and 100 feet wide. 100 people were evacuated from Campers Village Mobile Home Park, where water rose rapidly to a depth of four feet.
Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs).
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.
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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