Built in 1974. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Olde Town Arvada is a 15.1-acre (6.1 ha) historic district in Arvada, Colorado bounded by Ralston Road, Teller Road, Grandview Avenue and Yukon Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Olde Town Arvada, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1998 · category: District · built in 1974.
National Register reference number.98000854- 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
1,268 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,268 fires within 5 miles of Arvada Downtown
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 20 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
1096
Smoking
35
Equipment and vehicle use
34
Recreation and ceremony
23
Arson/incendiarism
20
Fireworks
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Debris and open burning
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Natural
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
43 workings within 5 miles of Arvada Downtown: 28 past producers, 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Arvada, the town this property stands in, in 82 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 67 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 lightning, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 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.
Two men at the Indian Tree Golf Course were struck by lightning when they sought shelter from a rapidly developing thunderstorm under a tree. One man suffered minor injuries, while the other died from this injuries.
A man was injured by a nearby lightning strike while he recorded a video of a thunderstorm with his cell phone. He was standing in his garage, when a nearby lightning bolt knocked him out. He suffered overall body aches and had a ringing sensation in one of his ears.
Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Leyden Creek in unincorporated Jefferson County, northwest of Arvada. An automated rain gauge in upper Leyden Creek, 6 miles northwest of Arvada, measured 2.68 inches of rain in less than two hours. Two to three feet of water covered the roadway at 82nd and Quaker.
Several intersections were flooded as heavy rain producing thunderstorms struck the area. Several cars were damaged by the highwaters and a number of businesses were also flooded.
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 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.
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.
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