Goulding's Trading Post

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off UT 47, Gouldings, 84536
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. building
Census division. Oljato
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/6f512c5b39ee8c49bb356e082c8ba0e7
National Register reference number. 80003941 - 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 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Goulding's Trading Post in 1996, burning about 36 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
Smoking	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
7 June 1996	Smoking	36 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	NR65ROW

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Goulding's Trading Post: 12 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Vanadium. 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
Mitten No2	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Monument No. 1 Mine	Vanadium, Uranium, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Replacement
Skyline	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground
Skyline Road	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Mitton Mine	Vanadium	Past Producer
Monument #1	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Harvey Black	Uranium, Copper	Unknown
Mitten No. 1	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Carnotite, Malachite, Torbernite, Tyuyamunite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Rock Door #1	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite, Tyuyamunite
Skyline Mine	Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	1948

Every working recorded in San Juan 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Oljato Trading Post	6.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003941 in Record Group 79.
San Juan County	All 23 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.