Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill is a historic gold mining site near Victor, Colorado on the south slope of Battle Mountain. Between late 1893 and April 1899, approximately 200,000 ounces (6200 kg) of gold was removed from the Independence Mine.”
Wikipedia article Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Teller County · listed in 1993 · category: District · built in 1891.

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 3 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Rangeview Rd. and CO 67, Victor, 80860
When was it listed? March 1993
Category. district
Census division. Cripple Creek
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 93000054 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 5 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	22
Natural	14
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Teller County	not named
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	VICTOR
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	PONY GULCH
24 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN
8 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Teller County	not named
7 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 513 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 513 workings within 5 miles of Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill: 487 past producers, 15 producers, 8 occurrences, 2 plants. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. 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
Ajax Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon Anchor	Gold, Silver, Tellurium	Producer	Vein
Caledonia	Feldspar	Past Producer	Underground
Cripple Creek District	Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Mercury, Tellurium	Producer	Calaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite
Florence Lode Claim	Gemstone	Producer	Turquoise
Gedney Titanium	Titanium	Past Producer
Hull City	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Nipple Mountain Prospect	Tungsten	Occurrence	1925
Portland No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Occurrence
Molly Kathleen	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Underground

Every working recorded in Teller County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 hail. 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
July 2022	Hail	Victor	-	Report of quarter sized hail in Victor.
July 2023	Hail	Victor	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Victor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teller 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

5 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
Victor Downtown Historic District	0.4 miles	1985
Victor Hotel	0.4 miles	1980
Midland Terminal Railroad Depot	0.4 miles	1984
Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station	0.7 miles	1984
Cripple Creek Historic District	3.6 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000054 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teller County	All 11 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.