Riverside Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Riverside Cemetery, established in 1876, is Denver, Colorado's oldest operating cemetery. More than 67,000 people are buried there, including 1,000 veterans.”
Wikipedia article Riverside Cemetery (Denver), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 5201 Brighton Blvd., Denver, 80022
When was it listed? October 1994
Category. district
Census division. Commerce City
National Register reference number. 94001253 - 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

1,253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,253 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 26 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	1108
Smoking	32
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Recreation and ceremony	19
Fireworks	19
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	DENVER
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	WESTMINSTER
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	DENVER
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	DENVER
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	WESTMINSTER
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Riverside Cemetery: 52 past producers, 15 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, 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
Adams North Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1956
Rodger Steele Claim	Uranium	Prospect
Unknown	Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Placer
Unknown	Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver	Occurrence
Denver Brick & Pipe Co.	Clay	Producer
Strainland Mine	Clay	Producer
Cooley Gravel Co. Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Past Producer	1951, 1964
Gordon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Past Producer	Gold, Sand and Gravel
Adams County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Adams County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Union High School	4.5 miles	2000
Harris Park School	4.6 miles	1990
Bowles House	4.8 miles	1988
William J. Gregory House	5.3 miles	1996
Westminster University	5.3 miles	1979
Granville Fuller House	5.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001253 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 18 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.