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Photograph of Buckley Ranch
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Buckley Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 59, Hartsel, 80449
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Ranching Resources of South Park, Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Lake George
  • National Register reference number. 99001667 - 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

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Buckley Ranch between 2011 and 2020, burning about 12 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJefferson-Como Fire Protection DistrictN/A
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHartsel Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHartsel Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
21 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHartsel Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Buckley Ranch: 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Hartsel Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Mud ClaimsUraniumOccurrence1958
UnknownLead, ZincProducer
UnknownBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
UnknownLead, ZincPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartsel, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2021Flash FloodHartsel$5,000Heavy rain near Weston Pass caused localized flash flooding along State Highway 9 in southern Park County. An SUV got stuck in the flood waters but no injuries were reported.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Hartsel-A tornado touched down in open country. No damage as reported.
June 2016HailHartsel-Large hail punched holes in a greenhouse roof and shredded a patio tent.
June 2016HailHartsel-no account filed
June 2016HailHartsel-no account filed
June 2010HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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

1 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
EM Ranch6.1 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001667 in Record Group 79.
Park CountyAll 26 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.