Milne Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 18457 CO 392, Lucerne, 80615
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. district
Also known as. Historic Farms and Ranches of Weld County MPS
Census division. Greeley
National Register reference number. 92001840 - 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

224 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Milne Farm between 2008 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	174
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	EATON
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Greeley Fire Department	N/A
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eaton Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Greeley Fire Department	N/A

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Milne Farm: 9 producers, 8 occurrences, 2 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Great Western Sugar Co	Iron	Producer
Great Western Sugar Co	Iron	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this property

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucerne, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 12 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2009	Lightning	Lucerne	2 hurt	no account filed
June 2012	Flash Flood	Lucerne	$10,000	A flash flood washed out a small section of State Highway 392, between County Roads 39 and 41.
June 2025	Hail	Lucerne	-	Report from mping.
June 2025	Hail	Lucerne	-	Report from mping.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucerne	-	Strong thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
August 2017	Heavy Rain	Lucerne	-	Heavy rain forced brief road closures in Greeley due to standing water. A trained spotter measured 2.38 inches of rain, which fell in less than 45 minutes.
April 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Lucerne	-	A weak landspout formed briefly but did no damage.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucerne	-	Intense straight-line winds downed trees and damaged cars.
April 2016	Tornado (EFU)	Lucerne	-	A weak landspout formed briefly but did no damage.
August 2023	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Lucerne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Aaron James Eaton House	3.2 miles	2006
Amanda K. Alger Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church	3.3 miles	2006
Joseph A. Woodbury House	3.9 miles	1984
Greeley High School and Grade School	3.9 miles	1981
Greeley Masonic Temple	4.0 miles	2004
Greeley Tribune Building	4.0 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001840 in Record Group 79.
Weld County	All 36 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.