BlockFrom the record
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ottesen Grain Company Feed Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 815 7th ST., Fort Lupton, 80621
- When was it listed? November 1998
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Lupton
- National Register reference number. 98001320 - 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
260 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Ottesen Grain Company Feed Mill between 2010 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 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 | 242 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southeast Weld Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Storms near this property
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lupton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Lupton | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a tin roof off a cattle shelter into a mobile home west of Fort Lupton, causing considerable damage to the mobile home. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Lupton | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | A large swath of damaging hail up to one inch in diameter was reported at numerous locations between and including Erie to Kersey. Numerous reports of crop damage had been reported over southern Weld County. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | Hay and wheat had been knocked down and damaged. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | Hay and wheat had been knocked down and damaged. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Lupton | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field north of Fort Lupton (24 miles south southwest of Greeley). No damage or injuries was reported. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Lupton | - | A small short-lived tornado was observed by spotters in an open field north of Fort Lupton (24 miles south southwest of Greeley). No damage or injuries was reported. |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Vasquez | 7.5 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98001320 in Record Group 79. |
| Weld County | All 36 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.
- 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.