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Photograph of Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot
Photograph by ERoss99, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot is a historic railroad station located in Calhan, Colorado, United States. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad provided transportation between Colorado Springs and Kansas until it went into bankruptcy in the early 1970s.”

Wikipedia article Calhan station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 252 ft. W of Denver St. on Rock Island RR right-of-way, Calhan, 80808
  • When was it listed? April 1995
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Black Forest-Peyton
  • National Register reference number. 95000476 - 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

52 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot between 2010 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCALHAN
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalhan Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
11 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresEl Paso CountyUNKNOWN
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalhan Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalhan Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCALHAN
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalhan Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot: 24 producers, 10 past producers, 2 occurrences. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Apache #9ClayProducer
Calhan MinesClayProducer
UnknownClayProducerClay
UnknownClayProducer
UnknownClayProducerClay
UnknownClayProducerClay
UnknownClayProducer
Alford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evetts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this property

60 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calhan, the town this property stands in, in 103 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 84 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016LightningCalhan3 hurtA lightning strike injured three people at the El Paso County Fairgrounds.
June 2001HailCalhan$2,000,000A very severe thunderstorm dumped giant hail from the Elbert-El Paso county line into Calhan. The hail swath was around 2 miles wide. Damage estimates were still preliminary at the time of submission.
August 2004Flash FloodCalhan$200,000Very heavy rain from a line of slow moving thunderstorms produced up to 4 inches of rain in one hour caused an irrigation dam to overflow in northeastern EL Paso county. Brackett Creek went out of it's banks running at times 8 to 12 feet deep and 30 feet wide...with the average levels at Brackett Creek 6 inches deep and 3 feet wide. Around 25 county roads were washed out by the flash flooding in a large portion of the county north of Highway 94. Highway 110 and Falcon Highway were severely damaged from flood waters of Brackett Creek. A bridge on Slocum Road...two miles north of Highway 94 was destroyed.
June 2025HailCalhan-Hail up to 1 inches in diameter fell in El Paso County from a severe thunderstorm.
August 2025HailCalhan-Hail measured to 1 inches fell in eastern El Paso County.
July 2025HailCalhan-Hail measured to 1 inches occurred in northeastern El Paso County.
August 2024Heavy RainCalhan-A public source reported 1.50 inches of rain, which fell in a short period of time, and was produced by a strong thunderstorm.
July 2024HailCalhan-Hail measured to 1 inch fell south of Peyton.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindCalhan-There was a 61 knot wind gust reported at location.
May 2023HailCalhan-Reported by a storm chaser.
June 2023HailCalhan-Trained spotter reported.
August 2022Flash FloodCalhan-Trained spotter called in to report flash flooding 3 miles west of Calhan with approximately 1.5 to 2 inches fallen in the past hour.
July 2022Flash FloodCalhan-A road washed out between Calhan and Ramah.
July 2022Heavy RainCalhan-Heavy rainfall of 1.50 inches.
July 2022Heavy RainCalhan-Heavy rainfall of 1.80 inches.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCalhan-Roof peeled off a trailer home near the El Paso County fairgrounds. Time estimated per Doppler radar signatures. Doppler radar estimates 70-75 mph winds.
June 2015Funnel CloudCalhan-A brief funnel cloud occurred west of Calhan.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Calhan-A short lived tornado caused no known damage.
July 1999Funnel CloudCalhan-A reported funnel cloud caused nearly 6000 people attending the El Paso County Fair to be evacuated and sheltered in nearby school buildings.
August 1999Flash FloodCalhan-Heavy rain in 2 1/2 hours caused several road closures, generally east and southeast of Ramah. Brackett Creek, about 3 miles southwest of Calhan, overflowed its banks and spilled over a flood control dam, causing additional flooding mainly south of highway 24.
June 1997LightningCalhan-A lightning bolt hit a transformer near Calhan. Power was lost until around 10:30 p.m. for about half the customers in and around Calhan.
June 1995HailCalhan-Lightning struck a telephone line which struck a Calhan man talking on the phone.
May 1994HailCalhan-Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs).
July 2023HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2022HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2022HailCalhan-no account filed
August 2018HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2018HailCalhan-no account filed
May 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
May 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
August 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2017HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2016HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2016HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2015HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2015HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2015HailCalhan-no account filed
May 2015HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2014HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2014HailCalhan-no account filed
August 2014HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2014HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2014HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2013HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2013HailCalhan-no account filed
August 2013HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCalhan-no account filed
June 2012HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2012HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCalhan-no account filed
May 2011HailCalhan-no account filed
May 2011HailCalhan-no account filed
June 2011HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2010HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2010HailCalhan-no account filed
July 2010HailCalhan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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

1 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
Calhan Paint Mines Archeological District2.1 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000476 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso CountyAll 98 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.