Photograph by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation photographer, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
Grand Valley Diversion Dam
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Grand Valley Diversion Dam is a diversion dam in the De Beque Canyon of the Colorado River, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Grand Junction, Colorado in the United States. It is a 14-foot (4.3 m) high, 546-foot (166 m) long concrete roller dam with six gates, which were the first and largest of their kind to be installed in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Grand Valley Diversion Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
National Register reference number.91001485- 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
138 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Grand Valley Diversion Dam
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,566 acres in total. 102 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
102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
23
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Grand Valley Diversion Dam: 5 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Palisade, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud.
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 debris flow occurred along Interstate 70 between mile markers 42 and 47 as a result of heavy rains. The road was closed for a couple of hours due to cleanup operations.
A funnel cloud was observed northeast of Grand Junction by NWS employees and numerous members of the public. The funnel lasted approximately 15 minutes before dissipating.
Heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide next to I-70 at Exit 42. The heavy rainfall also caused the fall of several large boulders onto the westbound lanes of I-70 near mile marker 43. The boulders, which weighed up to a thousand pounds, closed the westbound lanes of I-70 for about an hour until they were all removed.
Runoff from heavy rain caused 2 inches of water to flow across Rapid Creek Road which leads to the on-ramp of Interstate 70. Runoff also left 1 inch of mud across Highway 330 between Mile Marker 2 and 3.
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
2 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.
Block
