Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot, at 100 Baker Ave. in Boone, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Pueblo County · listed in 1997 · 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.
Address. 100 Baker Ave., Boone, 81025
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. building
Census division. Northeast Pueblo
National Register reference number. 97000618 - 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

18 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot between 2011 and 2020, burning about 849 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
30 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
2 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
9 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Boone Volunteer Fire Department	N/A
27 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
26 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	N/A
3 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
18 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Pueblo County

Storms near this property

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 2 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
July 1999	Flash Flood	Boone	2 hurt	Heavy rain caused the low water crossing on Highway 96 at Kramer Creek to flood. Four people were rescued...two were hospitalized.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$3,000	Hay bails were blown over, and large trees were toppled on 68th Lane.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$3,000	A chimney was toppled from a ranch house on 67th Lane.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$2,000	Large trees were uprooted near US Highway 50 and 66th Lane.
June 2025	Hail	Boone	-	Confirmed golf ball sized hail at location, with some hail stones estimated to near baseballs. Hail caused significant damage to property and vehicles around location.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	-	Estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gust from CO-OP observer.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Boone	-	Ditches running full. Farm fields flooded with up to 1 ft of water depth. Lower field has ponding of water up to 2 ft of depth.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Boone	-	Heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches.
September 2021	Heavy Rain	Boone	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.06 inches.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Boone	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.20 inches occurred 8 miles southeast of Boone.
June 2019	Hail	Boone	-	Trained spotter reported 60 MPH max wind gust, heavy rain of 0.50 inches in 30 minutes and quarter size hail.
July 2019	Hail	Boone	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
August 2019	Hail	Boone	-	One inch hail reported.
August 2019	Hail	Boone	-	One inch hail reported 10 miles northeast of Boone.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	-	Limbs up to 5 inches in diameter were stripped from trees.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	-	Severe winds caused four inch diameter tree limbs to be snapped off.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Boone	-	A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Boone	-	A nearly stationary tornado caused no known damage.
June 2021	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Boone	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Boone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pueblo 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
	Huerfano Bridge	1.6 miles	1985
	Avondale Bridge	5.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000618 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pueblo County	All 69 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.