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Resource Number: 5GN3711.1 <br />• Temporary Resource Number: <br />Management Data Form <br />(page 3 of 4- <br />- IV. NATIONAL/STATE REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT <br />31. Context or Theme: Colorado Ptateau Historic Context -Water and Irrigation, 1874-1929 <br />32. Applicable National Register Criteria: <br />Does not meet any of the below National Register criteria <br />XX A. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad <br />pattern of our history; or <br />B. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or <br />C. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of <br />construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic <br />values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components <br />may lack individual distinction; or <br />D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory; <br />or <br />Qualities under exceptions A through G. <br />Level of Significance: National State XX Local XX <br />33. Condition <br />a. Architectural/Structural b. Archaeological/Paleontological <br />XX Excellent Undisturbed <br />Good XX Light disturbance <br />• Fair Moderate disturbance <br />Deteriorated Heavy disturbance <br />Ruins Total disturbance <br />34, Describe condition: The canal was modified in 1939 with old wooden flumes and head gates <br />replaced and the entire system widened. This segment is in excellent condition. The canal <br />segment runs through a concrete box culvert where the road from Bear Creek (running north <br />to south) crosses it. - <br />35. Vandalism: yes no XX describe: <br />36. National Register Eligibility Field Assessment: - <br />Eligible XX Not Eligible Need Data <br />Statement of Significance/N.R.H.P. Justification: Although the entire Fire Mountain Canal <br />System has not yet been officially determined eligible, a segment to the west of the Project <br />Area in Delta County 15DT1277.1) has been recommended field eligible under Criterion A. <br />That segment as well as the one located within the Project Area (5GN3711.1) should be <br />considered contributing elements to an eligible Fire Mountain Canal System. The canal system <br />-was constructed in 1896 and runs for 32 miles in the North Fork of the Gunnison Valley <br />serving farms and ranches throughout. The system was enlarged in 1939, under Presidential <br />Approval, to carry water from the new Spring Creek Reservoir. The segment within the <br />Project Area is recommended eligible under Criterion A because of its association in history <br />with significant state and local events, particularly local agricultural development. <br />37, Status in an Existing National Register District: N/A <br />Contributing Non-Contributing <br />38. National Register District Potential yes no XX discuss: The present segment is <br />not large enough and does not serve any of its end users in the current project area. Thus it is <br />a single segment and site. However, other portions of the ditch and the lands it serves could <br />• have the potential to be a rural farming cultural landscape based on the presence of the ditch. <br />