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Midway House

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Midway House, also known as Broken M Bar Ranch and Meyer Ranch, is an 1889 Queen Anne ranch house located near Aspen Park, Colorado. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Midway House (Aspen Park, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1990 · category: District · built in 1889.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 9345 U.S. 285, Conifer, 80433
  • When was it listed? September 1990
  • Category. district
  • Census division. South Jefferson
  • When was it built? 1889
  • National Register reference number. 90001479 - 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

103 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Midway House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
7 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Midway House: 6 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Feldspar, Clay. 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
Babe of the WoodsCadmium, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1876
Bigger Mica MineFeldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Uranium, Bismuth, Niobium (Columbium), REE, Tin, TantalumPast Producer1884, 1935
Bigger Mica MineFeldspar, Quartz, BerylliumPast Producer
Buckman Ranch PegmatiteIron, Beryllium, Gemstone, Quartz, Garnet, Mica, FeldsparOccurrenceBeryl, Feldspar, Garnet, Magnetite, Mica, Quartz, Tourmaline
Evergreen MeadowsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fenders-Magnotte PegFeldspar, Mica, Quartz, Garnet, GemstoneOccurrenceGarnet, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Tourmaline
Idealite MineClayPast Producer
Iowa GulchQuartz, Feldspar, Mica, Gemstone, Garnet, IronOccurrenceBiotite, Garnet, Magnetite, Microcline, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Tourmaline
Iowa Gulch PegmatiteQuartzProducer
Malden School PegFeldspar, Quartz, Garnet, MicaOccurrenceFeldspar, Garnet, Mica, Quartz

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conifer, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 2 lightning. 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 2007LightningConifer$5,000Lightning struck a residence in Evergreen.
August 2025HailConifer-no account filed
August 2025HailConifer-no account filed
August 2025HailConifer-no account filed
June 2023HailConifer-no account filed
August 2016HailConifer-no account filed
August 2014HailConifer-no account filed
June 2006HailConifer-no account filed
August 2006HailConifer-no account filed
August 2006HailConifer-no account filed
June 2004HailConifer-no account filed
June 2004HailConifer-no account filed
June 2004HailConifer-no account filed
July 2003HailConifer-no account filed
June 2001HailConifer-no account filed
June 2001HailConifer-no account filed
June 2001HailConifer-no account filed
August 2001HailConifer-no account filed
May 1996LightningConifer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Conifer Junction Schoolhouse1.8 miles2014
Everhardt Ranch3.8 miles1980
Brook Forest Inn6.0 miles2009
Staunton Ranch Rural Historic Landscape6.4 miles2012
Evergreen Conference District6.5 miles1979
Dedisse Park6.6 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 83 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.