Mingus Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off CO 165 N of jct. with Ophir Cr. Rd., San Isabel NF, Beulah, 81253
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. district
Census division. Westcliffe
National Register reference number. 90001791 - 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Mingus Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 41 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
Natural	41
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	JEAN BROWN
3 September 1995	Natural	5.0 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	S. HOLBERT
21 September 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Front Range District Office	DAVENPORT
8 August 2012	Natural	80 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DITCH CREEK
31 August 2009	Natural	33 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	JOHNSON GULCH
29 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	MASON GULCH
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DITCH CREEK

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mingus Homestead: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Iron, Lead, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Ophir Creek Claims	Lead, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Cerargyrite, Gold
Unnamed Mines	Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar	Past Producer
Unidentified Mine	Iron	Occurrence
Unidentified Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence
Buckeye - Holt Mine	Silver	Past Producer
Mineral Claims No. 2	Silver	Past Producer
Unidentified Occurrence	Silver	Past Producer
Unidentified Occurrence	Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Custer 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001791 in Record Group 79.
Custer County	All 10 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.