Mint Saloon

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 13 E. Park Ave. (US 40), Empire, 80438
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. building
Census division. Georgetown
National Register reference number. 92001845 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Mint Saloon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	UTE CREEK
26 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clear Creek County Office	CCX 884
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	CLEAR CREEK
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	THREE CHIEFS
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
10 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	EVANS
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 463 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 463 workings within 5 miles of Mint Saloon: 374 past producers, 41 producers, 37 occurrences, 9 unknowns. 41 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Alpha	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
Amy	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Angeline	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Anglo Saxon Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Anglo-Saxon Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Bachus Group	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Bard Creek Mine	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Lead, Silver
Bellevue-Rochester	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-Hudson	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Vein
Capitol Prize	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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
Peck House	0.1 miles	1993
Georgetown Schoolhouse	3.8 miles	1966
Hotel de Paris	3.9 miles	1970
Alpine Hose Company No. 2	3.9 miles	1973
Grace Episcopal Church	3.9 miles	1973
Hamill House	4.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001845 in Record Group 79.
Clear Creek County	All 24 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.