Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building in Montrose, Colorado is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has also been known as the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association Office.”
Wikipedia article U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
National Register reference number.91001685- 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
476 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 476 fires within 5 miles of US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 815 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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
338
Debris and open burning
39
Smoking
33
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Recreation and ceremony
17
Natural
9
Arson/incendiarism
7
Fireworks
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
26 workings within 5 miles of US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building: 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Montrose, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 5 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
One of several strong to severe thunderstorms that passed through the city of Montrose produced a bolt of lightning that struck a house south of town. This then set the house on fire, eventually destroying it.
A microburst traversed a section of the town of Montrose, breaking off numerous large branches and snapping off some trees. Loose objects such as picnic tables, chairs, and barbecue grills were blown over or tossed around. It took three days for the City of Montrose to clean up all of the debris on sidewalks and streets.
A ten foot high and 30 foot wide wall of water came roaring down normally dry Tappan Wash and went out of its banks in places, including yards of residences as well as a section of Dave Wood Road. A person hiking up the wash narrowly escaped the wall of water by quickly climbing up the wash embankment. Culverts and irrigation canals were clogged with debris which included logs and a large amount of personal property. Some of the personal property items were later found downstream. A camper trailer in a yard was knocked over and damaged by the flood waters, while a nearby trailer was picked up and carried a short distance away.
The culverts backed up as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. This resulted in several inches of water and some embedded debris spilling over onto Racine and Sunshine Roads in Montrose.
Severe thunderstorms rumbled across portions of western and northwestern Colorado. The winds toppled a trailer home north of Montrose and blew over a shed in Rangely (61 miles north of Grand Junction).
Lightning struck a power substation on the north side of Montrose during the early morning hours, causing minor damage This caused the electrical power to be down for nearly 1400 residences in northern Montrose County north of the town of Montrose for about 90 minutes.
Collapsing thunderstorms brought strong wind gusts estimated at 55 to 65 mph to Montrose resulting in trees being blown over and damage to a car in town.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the city of Montrose which resulted in some minor street flooding above the crown of the road on North 5th Street. Radar estimated rainfall rates of 0.25 to 0.50 inches per hour.
Heavy rain producing thunderstorms caused a flash flood which deposited mud, rocks, and debris up to 2 feet deep onto a 30 foot wide section of 175 Road at the bottom of the East Portal near Crystal Dam.
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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