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One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1995 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Starbuck Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- Address. CO 74 through Bear Creek Canyon, S of Idledale, Idledale, 80453
- When was it listed? June 1995
- Category. district
- Also known as. Denver Mountain Parks MPS
- Census division. Golden
- National Register reference number. 95000796 - 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
230 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Starbuck Park between 2003 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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 | 178 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | INDIAN HILLS |
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | West Metro Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Golden Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | West Metro Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Golden Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Genesee Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 88 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 88 workings within 5 miles of Starbuck Park: 36 producers, 29 occurrences, 20 past producers, 2 unknowns. 36 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Blackstone Claim | Uranium, Radium, Vanadium | Prospect | ||
| Burroughs Feldspar Mine | Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, Lithium | Past Producer | 1942, 1944 | |
| Capitol Central | Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Foothills | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Four Corners Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1954, 1955, 1960 | |
| Genessee Mountain Scheelite Occurrence | Tungsten | Occurrence | Scheelite | |
| Grapevine Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Idledale District | Uranium, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1955, 1968 | |
| Malachite Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Nickel, Lead | Past Producer | 1866, 1888 |
Storms near this property
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Idledale, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 6 hail. The reports record 90 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Idledale | 90 hurt | Dozens were injured at Red Rocks Park when a severe thunderstorm pummeled the venue with large hail. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Idledale | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Idledale | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Idledale | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Idledale | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Idledale | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Little Park | 0.5 miles | 1995 |
 | Bear Creek Canyon Scenic Mountain Drive | 0.8 miles | 1990 |
 | Red Rocks Park District | 1.8 miles | 1990 |
| Thiede Ranch | 2.4 miles | 1996 | |
 | Morrison Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1976 |
 | Mount Vernon House | 2.8 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95000796 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 83 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.