Colorado Women's Prison

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Colorado Women's Prison is located at 201 N. 1st St. in Canon City, Colorado. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Colorado Women's Prison, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1934.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 N. 1st St., Canon City, 81212
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. building
Census division. Cañon City
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 99000265 - 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

714 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 714 fires within 5 miles of Colorado Women's Prison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 699 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 3 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	589
Natural	48
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	13
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Colorado Women's Prison: 21 past producers, 18 producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Uranium. 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
Border Feldspar	Feldspar, Silica, Mica	Past Producer
Border Feldspar Prospect	Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Bismuth, Beryllium	Past Producer	Beryl, Bismutite, Feldspar, Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz
Colonna	Marble, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Copper King Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1901, 1908
Cotter Mill (facility)	Uranium, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Dawson Gold Project	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Prospect
Dawson Mountain-Surprise Group	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1902
Devils Hole Quarry	Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar	Producer
Eight Mile Park District	Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth	Past Producer	Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz, Beryl
Horse Shoe & El Ploma	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Deputy Warden's House	under 500 feet	2001
Canon City State Armory	0.1 miles	1999
McClure House	0.3 miles	1979
US Post Office and Federal Building-Canon City Main	0.3 miles	1986
Robison Mansion	0.4 miles	1984
Canon City Downtown Historic District	0.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000265 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 25 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.