Daniels Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Daniels Park is a former working ranch in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The park is one of the Denver Mountain Parks and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Daniels Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along Douglas Co. Rd. 67 NE of Sedalia, Sedalia, 80135
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. district
Also known as. Denver Mountain Parks MPS
Census division. Sedalia
National Register reference number. 95000795 - 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Daniels Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 816 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 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	172
Smoking	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Fireworks	9
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
29 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Littleton Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
29 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
20 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Daniels Park: 11 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay, REE. 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
Happy Canyon Creek Gold Occurrence	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Little Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Unknown
Louviers Plant	REE	Producer
Molycorp Inc Louviers Plant	REE	Producer
Newlin Gulch Placer	Gold	Occurrence	1895
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Diamond Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedalia, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 4 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
May 2017	Lightning	Sedalia	1 killed, 1 hurt, $5,000	A woman and her horse were killed after they were struck by lightning. A 15-year-old girl also sustained serious injuries and was treated for electrocution.
August 2000	Lightning	Sedalia	$2,000,000	Lightning sparked a blaze which gutted a 10-unit apartment building in Highlands Ranch. Twenty-eight people were left homeless.
May 2009	Lightning	Sedalia	$200,000	no account filed
June 2012	Flash Flood	Sedalia	-	Heavy rain allowed Plum Creek to exceed flood stage by nearly a foot at Sedalia which resulted in lowland flooding.
June 2003	Lightning	Sedalia	-	Lightning blew a hole in the roof of a home in Highlands Ranch. The bolt knocked several holes in the bedroom ceilings and damaged the home's electrical system.
June 1994	Hail	Sedalia	-	Hail up to dime-size covered Interstate 25 south of Sedalia (22 miles south of Denver). Heavy rain caused local flooding on the Interstate.
June 2023	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

4 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
Cherokee Ranch	2.2 miles	1994
Santa Fe Railway Water Tank	3.5 miles	2003
Louviers Village	4.2 miles	1999
Louviers Village Club	4.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000795 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas 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.
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.