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One of 4 National Register listings published here for Ouray County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
George Jackson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Jackson, George, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 129 Citadel Dr., Ridgway, 81432
- When was it listed? January 1996
- Category. building
- Census division. Ouray
- National Register reference number. 95001508 - 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
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of George Jackson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | WHITEHOUSE |
| 3 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BANKERS |
| 28 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | not named |
| 8 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | HORSETHIEF |
| 7 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | HORSETHIEF |
| 30 July 2000 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | CORBETT |
| 29 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | MOONSHINE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 55 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of George Jackson House: 51 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American-Nettie | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrargyrite | |
| Bachelor Mill | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Bachelor Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Bay City Mill | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Boston Sunday | Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Fortuna | Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| News Boy | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Orvis Hot Spring | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Ouray | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Platinum, Osmium, Palladium, Iridium | Occurrence | Stream Placer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgway, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Ridgway | $1,250,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Ridgway | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Ridgway | $1,000 | Ouray County Sheriff's Office reported 3 feet of running water on County Road 24 and 24A as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms and runoff. |
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Ridgway | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in mudslides along Highway 550 at mile marker 101.5, approximately 2 miles south-southeast of Ridgway. About an inch of storm total rainfall was reported in Ridgway with this event. Daily spot forecasts were requested by emergency management for both Ridgway and Ouray for extensive cleanup efforts for several days following the debris flows. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Ridgway | - | Heavy rainfall totaling 0.82 of an inch fell within about an hour resulting in minor street flooding. |
| July 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ridgway | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Heavy Rain | Ridgway | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ridgway | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flood | Ridgway | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flood | Ridgway | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Ridgway | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ouray Historic District | 4.6 miles | 1983 |
 | Ouray City Hall and Walsh Library | 4.8 miles | 1975 |
 | Beaumont Hotel | 4.8 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95001508 in Record Group 79. |
| Ouray County | All 4 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.