De Beque House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 233 Denver Ave., DeBeque, 81630
When was it listed? July 1995
Category. building
Census division. De Beque
National Register reference number. 95000936 - 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of De Beque House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,009 acres in total. 118 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
Natural	118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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	DEBEQUE
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SMITH GLCH
6 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	LOGAN
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	DeBeque Volunteer Fire Department	N/A
4 September 2020	Other causes	3.1 acres	Mesa County	DEBEQUE
27 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
24 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	HIGHWAY 6

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of De Beque House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Nichols Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mesa 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	IOOF Hall	0.3 miles	1993
	Colorado River Bridge	1.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000936 in Record Group 79.
Mesa County	All 33 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.