National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Blanco County, Colorado

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Blanco County, Colorado.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.^[1]

There are 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 7, 2024.^[2]

Properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado by county

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Current listings

^[3]	Name on the Register^[4]	Image	Date listed^[5]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Battle of Milk River Site	Battle of Milk River Site	August 22, 1975 (#75000536)	Address Restricted	Meeker	Site of the Battle of Milk Creek
2	Canon Pintado	Canon Pintado	October 6, 1975 (#75000538)	Address Restricted	Rangely
3	Carrot Men Pictograph Site	Carrot Men Pictograph Site	August 22, 1975 (#75000539)	Address Restricted	Rangely
4	Coal Creek School	Coal Creek School More images	July 18, 2014 (#14000421)	617 County Road 6 40°01′52″N 107°49′02″W / 40.0311°N 107.8172°W / 40.0311; -107.8172 (Coal Creek School)	Meeker
5	Collage Shelter Site	Collage Shelter Site	August 27, 1980 (#80000924)	Address Restricted	Rangely
6	Duck Creek Wickiup Village	Upload image	November 20, 1975 (#75000537)	Address Restricted	Meeker
7	Fremont Lookout Fortification Site	Fremont Lookout Fortification Site	November 20, 1974 (#74000593)	Address Restricted	Rangely
8	Hay's Ranch Bridge	Hay's Ranch Bridge More images	February 4, 1985 (#85000233)	County Road 127 40°00′48″N 108°05′32″W / 40.013333°N 108.092222°W / 40.013333; -108.092222 (Hay's Ranch Bridge)	Meeker
9	Meeker Historic District	Meeker Historic District	January 28, 2019 (#100003359)	Main, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th Streets 40°02′15″N 107°54′47″W / 40.037482°N 107.913065°W / 40.037482; -107.913065 (Meeker Historic District)	Meeker
10	Hotel Meeker	Hotel Meeker More images	May 7, 1980 (#80000923)	560 Main St. 40°02′14″N 107°54′45″W / 40.037222°N 107.9125°W / 40.037222; -107.9125 (Hotel Meeker)	Meeker
11	Meeker I.O.O.F. Lodge-Valentine Lodge No. 47	Meeker I.O.O.F. Lodge-Valentine Lodge No. 47	March 19, 2014 (#14000060)	400 Main St. 40°02′15″N 107°54′40″W / 40.037616°N 107.911095°W / 40.037616; -107.911095 (Meeker I.O.O.F. Lodge-Valentine Lodge No. 47)	Meeker
12	Pyramid Guard Station	Pyramid Guard Station More images	January 10, 2008 (#07001354)	County Road 8 40°09′10″N 107°13′26″W / 40.152778°N 107.223889°W / 40.152778; -107.223889 (Pyramid Guard Station)	Yampa
13	St. James Episcopal Church	St. James Episcopal Church More images	March 30, 1978 (#78000883)	368 4th St. 40°02′19″N 107°54′37″W / 40.038611°N 107.910278°W / 40.038611; -107.910278 (St. James Episcopal Church)	Meeker

Former listings

^[3]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Whiskey Creek Trestle	Whiskey Creek Trestle	April 22, 1980 (#80000925)	November 25, 1987	West of Rangely	Rangely	Relocated to Cross Land and Fruit Company Orchards and Ranch Historic Site in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1987.^[6]

References

^ The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved June 7, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
^ "Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation | Properties removed from the National and State Registers". Archived from the original on 2012-08-18. Retrieved 2012-08-17.

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Protected areas of Colorado

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4 National Parks	Black Canyon of the Gunnison Great Sand Dunes Mesa Verde Rocky Mountain
9 National Monuments	Browns Canyon (BLM-USFS) Camp Hale-Continental Divide (USFS) Canyons of the Ancients (BLM) Chimney Rock (USFS) Colorado Dinosaur Florissant Fossil Beds Hovenweep Yucca House
3 National Historic Sites	Amache Bent's Old Fort Sand Creek Massacre
2 National Recreation Areas	Arapaho (USFS) Curecanti
1 Wild and Scenic River	Cache la Poudre River
4 National Historic Trails	California Trail Old Spanish Trail Pony Express Trail Santa Fe Trail
1 National Scenic Trail	Continental Divide Trail
11 National Forests	Arapaho Grand Mesa Gunnison Medicine Bow–Routt Pike Rio Grande Roosevelt San Isabel San Juan Uncompahgre White River
2 National Grasslands	Comanche Pawnee
44 National Wildernesses	Black Canyon of the Gunnison Black Ridge Canyons Buffalo Peaks Byers Peak Cache La Poudre Collegiate Peaks Comanche Peak Dominguez Canyon Eagles Nest Flat Tops Fossil Ridge Great Sand Dunes Greenhorn Mountain Gunnison Gorge Hermosa Creek Holy Cross Hunter–Fryingpan Indian Peaks James Peak La Garita Lizard Head Lost Creek Maroon Bells-Snowmass Mesa Verde Mount Evans Mount Massive Mount Sneffels Mount Zirkel Neota Never Summer Platte River Powderhorn Ptarmigan Peak Raggeds Rawah Rocky Mountain National Park Sangre de Cristo Sarvis Creek South San Juan Spanish Peaks Uncompahgre Vasquez Peak Weminuche West Elk
3 National Conservation Areas	Dominguez–Escalante Gunnison Gorge McInnis Canyons
8 National Wildlife Refuges	Alamosa Arapaho Baca Browns Park Monte Vista Rocky Flats Rocky Mountain Arsenal Two Ponds
3 National Heritage Areas	Cache la Poudre River Corridor Sangre de Cristo South Park
28 National Historic Landmarks	Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Bent's Old Fort Central City/Black Hawk Historic District Colorado Chautauqua Cripple Creek Historic District Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Denver Civic Center Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Elitch Gardens Carousel Georgetown–Silver Plume Historic District Granada War Relocation Center Leadville Historic District Lindenmeier site Lowry Pueblo Ludlow Tent Colony Site Mesa Verde Administrative District Minnequa Steel Works Pikes Peak Pike's Stockade Raton Pass Red Rocks Park Shenandoah-Dives Mill Silverton Historic District Telluride Historic District Temple Aaron Trujillo Homesteads United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area Winks Panorama
16 National Natural Landmarks	Big Spring Creek Garden of the Gods Garden Park Fossil Area Hanging Lake Indian Springs Trace Fossil Natural Area Lost Creek Scenic Area Morrison-Golden Fossil Areas Raton Mesa Roxborough Russell Lakes Sand Creek Slumgullion Earthflow Spanish Peaks Sulphur Cave and Spring Summit Lake West Bijou Site
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43 State Parks	Arkansas Headwaters Barr Lake Boyd Lake Castlewood Canyon Chatfield Cherry Creek Cheyenne Mountain Crawford Eldorado Canyon Eleven Mile Elkhead Fishers Peak Golden Gate Canyon Harvey Gap Highline Lake Jackson Lake James M. Robb - Colorado River John Martin Reservoir Lake Pueblo Lathrop Lone Mesa Lory Mancos Mueller Navajo North Sterling Paonia Pearl Lake Ridgway Rifle Falls Rifle Gap Roxborough Spinney Mountain St. Vrain Stagecoach State Forest Staunton Steamboat Lake Sweetwater Lake Sweitzer Lake Sylvan Lake Trinidad Lake Vega Yampa River
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96 State Natural Areas	Aiken Canyon Antero-Salt Creek Arikaree River Badger Wash Blacks Gulch Blue Mountain-Little Thompson Fault Bonny Prairie Boulder Mountain Park Brush Creek Fen California Park Castlewood Canyon Chalk Bluffs Coal Creek Tallgrass Prairie Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Comanche Grassland Copeland Willow Carr Corral Bluffs Cross Mountain Canyon Dakota Hogback Deer Gulch Dome Rock Droney Gulch Duck Creek Dudley Bluffs East Lost Park East Sand Dunes Elephant Rocks Escalante Canyon Fairview Fourmile Creek Fruita Paleontological Garden Park Fossil Gateway Palisade Geneva Basin Iron Fens Gothic Gunnison Gravels Haviland Lake High Creek Fen High Mesa Grassland Hoosier Ridge Hurricane Canyon Indian Spring Indian Springs Trace Fossil Irish Canyon Jimmy Creek Ken-Caryl Ranch Kremmling Cretaceous Ammonite Limestone Ridge Lookout Mountain Lower Greasewood Creek McElmo Mexican Cut Mini-Wheeler Miramonte Reservoir Mishak Lakes Mount Callahan & Logan Wash Mine Mount Emmons Iron Bog Mount Goliath Narraguinnep Needle Rock North Park Phacelia Orient Mine Owl Canyon Pagosa Skyrocket Paradise Park Park Creek Hogback Pyramid Rock Rabbit Valley Rajadero Canyon Raven Ridge Redcloud Peak Rough Canyon Roxborough Ryan Gulch Saddle Mountain San Miguel River Sand Creek Shell Duck Creek Shell Rock Slumgullion Earthflow South Beaver Creek South Boulder Creek South Cathedral Bluffs Specimen Mountain Staunton Tamarack Ranch Treasurevault Mountain Trinidad K-T Boundary Two Buttes Unaweep Seep Wacker Ranch West Creek Wheeler Geologic White Rocks Yanks Gulch/Upper Greasewood Creek Natural Area Zapata Falls
26 Scenic and Historic Byways	Alpine Loop Cache la Poudre-North Park Collegiate Peaks Colorado River Headwaters Dinosaur Diamond Flat Tops Trail Frontier Pathways Gold Belt Tour Grand Mesa Guanella Pass Highway of Legends Lariat Loop Los Caminos Antiguos Mount Evans Pawnee Pioneer Trails Peak to Peak San Juan Skyway Santa Fe Trail Silver Thread South Platte River Trail Top of the Rockies Tracks Across Borders Trail of the Ancients Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Unaweep Tabeguache West Elk Loop