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Photograph of Boreas Railroad Station
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Boreas Railroad Station Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Boreas Railroad Station Site is a 19 acres (7.7 ha) site in Pike National Forest near Como, Colorado, United States, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The listed area spans the border of Park and Summit counties.”

Wikipedia article Boreas Railroad Station Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1993 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Boreas Pass Rd. NW of Como, Pike NF, Como, 80424
  • When was it listed? October 1993
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 93001108 - 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

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Boreas Railroad Station Site between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictN/A
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestBOREAS
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Boreas Railroad Station Site: 31 past producers, 22 occurrences, 11 producers, 4 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Sally Barber F7tGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Bon TonLead, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Carbonate MineZinc, Silver, LeadProducerAnglesite, Galena
Fortune Placer MineLead, ZincPast Producer
FredoniaSilver, Zinc, LeadProducer
Governor MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, SilverPast ProducerVein
Governor MineLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Horn PropertyUranium, REEOccurrence
HunterGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Iron MineIron, Manganese, Zinc, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Como Cemetery6.9 miles2017
Como School7.5 miles2000
Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex7.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001108 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park CountyAll 26 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.