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Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway-Corley Mountain Highway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway was a 4 ft in standard gauge railroad operating in the U.S. state of Colorado around the turn of the 20th century.”

Wikipedia article Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway--Corley Mountain Highway - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Gold Camp Rd. and Forest Rd. 370, Colorado Springs, 80813
  • When was it listed? March 1999
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 99000400 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway-Corley Mountain Highway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined64
Recreation and ceremony24
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
15 September 2005Natural2.0 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestCHEYENNE
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKIA
11 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHOOT
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestOLD STAGE

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway-Corley Mountain Highway: 17 past producers, 15 occurrences, 5 producers, 5 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Gold, REE. 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
Blue Bird MineUranium, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)Past ProducerColumbite
Cheyenne DistrictFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Thorium, Gemstone, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Titanium, Metal, Tin, UraniumProducer1901, 1910, 1945
Duffields DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1901, 1910, 1945
Eureka ShaftFluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerCryolite, Fluorite
South Cheyenne MineStoneUnknown
St Peters Dome AreaNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, BerylliumOccurrenceBeryl, Pyrochlore
St Peters Dome FluoriteFluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Lead, Silica, Zinc, GoldProspect1883, 1910
St Peters Dome Pegmatite ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, Semiprecious Gemstone, TinProspect
St. Peters Dome No. 1 MineUranium, ThoriumPast Producer
Stove Mountain Mineral LocalityGemstone, REE, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Titanium, Metal, Tin, Thorium, Lead, Zinc, Copper, IronProducerAstrophyllite, Columbite, Cryolite, Fergusonite, Fluorite, Pyrochlore, Riebeckite, Topaz, Xenotime, Zircon

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colorado Springs, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailColorado Springs$50,000no account filed
August 1993HailColorado Springs$5,000no account filed
August 1995Tornado (F0)Colorado Springs-A tornado briefly touched down twice just southeast of the downtown Colorado Springs, first near the intersection of Hancock and Las Animas and then at the Fountain View Apartments, at the intersection of Hutchinson Drive and Fountain Blvd. Several windows were shattered in the apartment complex, and a 30-foot maple tree was toppled, cutting power lines to the apartment complex and damaging a nearby automobile.
June 1995HailColorado Springs-Very heavy rain accompanied the dime-size hail. The slow moving storm dropped up to three inch rainfall amounts at some locations. A few areas measured rainfall rates of over one inch in 20 minutes.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindColorado Springs-Lightning triggered a minor housefire in the attic. Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous tree limbs which damaged parked cars. In addition, larger branches blocked rush hour traffic along some roads.
May 1994HailColorado Springs-Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs).
September 1994HailColorado Springs-,,,,,,,,Flash Flooding Thunderstorms containing hail up to 1 inch in diameter and very heavy rains moved over most of the city of Colorado Springs. Rain fell at the rate of four inches per half hour in isolated locations across the city. Hail accumulated to 6 to 9 inches deep near Garden of the Gods west of Colorado Springs. Snow plows were called out at several locations to remove accumulated hail. Four to five feet of water on one city street stranded six people in their cars who needed to be rescued. Water at Templeton Gap Floodway was 10 to 15 feet deep and 100 feet wide. 100 people were evacuated from Campers Village Mobile Home Park, where water rose rapidly to a depth of four feet.
May 1994HailColorado Springs-Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs).
May 1996HailColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
May 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
May 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailColorado Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
North Cheyenne Canon Park4.2 miles2009
Shrine of the Sun4.8 miles1994
El Pomar Estate5.3 miles1995
Pauline Chapel5.6 miles2001
Claremont6.3 miles1977
John Wolfe House6.4 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000400 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso CountyAll 98 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.