Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot

Built in 1905 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot is a disused railroad depot and train station listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 119 Pitkin Avenue next to the still-in-use Grand Junction station in downtown Grand Junction, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot (Grand Junction, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1905, Italianate architecture, by Henry Schlacks.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 119 Pitkin Ave., Grand Junction, 81501
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Census division. Grand Junction
When was it built? 1905
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
Architect. Henry Schlacks
National Register reference number. 92001190 - 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

1,027 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,027 fires within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,314 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 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	882
Smoking	42
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Natural	24
Fireworks	21
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GRAND JUNCTION
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot: 38 unknowns, 12 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. 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
Colo Copper Properties	Copper	Producer
Lucius Pitkin Inc	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Unnamed	Stone	Unknown
Fireside Enterprises	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Himes Drilling	Limestone, Dimension	Unknown
Unknown	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Hydrothermal Vein
Unnamed Mine	Barium-Barite	Unknown
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1996	Lightning	Grand Junction	$4,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Junction	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph (52 knots) at the Grand Junction airport.

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Stranges Grocery	under 500 feet	2013
Hotel St. Regis	0.2 miles	1992
Handy Chapel	0.4 miles	1994
U.S. Post Office	0.4 miles	1980
Margery Building	0.4 miles	1993
North Seventh Street Historic Residential District	0.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001190 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mesa County	All 33 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.