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Photograph of Blanche A. Wilson House
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Blanche A. Wilson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Wilson House, also known as Centennial House, is a historic house in Aurora, Colorado that now serves as a museum. It is open for tour by the Aurora Historical Society on the second Sunday of the month in the summer season.”

Wikipedia article Blanche A. Wilson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1996 · 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.
  • Listed as. Wilson, Blanche A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1671 Galena St., Aurora, 80010
  • When was it listed? November 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. North Aurora
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • Architect. Donald Fletcher
  • National Register reference number. 96001278 - 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

852 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 852 fires within 5 miles of Blanche A. Wilson House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 267 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined695
Smoking37
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use27
Fireworks21
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural8
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDENVER

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Blanche A. Wilson House: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H W Siddle Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jones Fine Sand Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Superior Sand and Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 24 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997LightningAurora1 hurt, $1,000A man received minor injuries when he was struck by lightning while talking on the telephone.
June 1999HailAurora$35,000,000no account filed
August 2025Flash FloodAurora-Time and location estimated. Video of water flowing down the entire street from gutter to gutter.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAurora-The report was received from mesonet station CO198 Aurora I-70 and Airport Blvd.
May 2024HailAurora-The report was via mping.
May 2024HailAurora-The largest hailstone was measured with a calipers.
May 2024HailAurora-The report was via mping.
May 2024HailAurora-The report was via mping.
May 2024HailAurora-The report was via mping.
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Aurora-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAurora-A tree was blown down. The intense wind also broke branches and downed several electrical lines.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Aurora-A tornado touched down briefly. No damage was observed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAurora-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAurora-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAurora-no account filed
June 2023HailAurora-no account filed
June 2023HailAurora-no account filed
June 2023HailAurora-no account filed
June 2023HailAurora-no account filed
June 2021HailAurora-no account filed
May 2018HailAurora-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAurora-no account filed
August 2009HailAurora-no account filed
June 2002HailAurora-no account filed
May 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1999HailAurora-no account filed
June 1998HailAurora-no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodAurora-no account filed
October 1998HailAurora-no account filed
August 1997HailAurora-no account filed
August 1997HailAurora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

3 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
M.J. Lavina Robidoux House0.1 miles2011
Granville Fuller House0.3 miles2012
Riverside Cemetery5.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams CountyAll 18 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.