3559 CR 307
Durango, CO 81303
HIGH PLAINS PROPERTIES LLC · La Plata County, CO
Registered entity: HIGH PLAINS PROPERTIES, LLC (Good Standing)
Needs review means a record exists that requires verification. No record means nothing is on file — which is not an all-clear.
Sits over producing oil & gas — confirm whether the minerals convey with the surface.
Action plan for this parcel
- 1.
Verify mineral severance vs surface-only ownership
Criticalminerals0 producing wells on the parcel. In CO, surface and mineral rights are commonly severed — pull deed history to confirm what's actually owned. If minerals are reserved to a prior owner, royalties flow to them; if conveyed with surface, royalties + lease bonuses go to the current owner.
- 2.
2 rebate programs match this address
RecommendedrebateAcross state, county, and local sponsors — up to $1,000 stackable. Includes Colorado Wildfire Mitigation Income Tax Credit; Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) Grant.
Acrescope presents data and surfaces actions — it does not provide financial, legal, tax, or insurance advice. Confirm with a qualified professional before incurring costs.
The deal
What this parcel is worth, what encumbers it, and what its paper trail says — value, distress, listings, sales, and tax.
Why this differs from the assessor value above: Colorado assesses agricultural-classified land on grazing productivity (ag-use value), typically ~30–40× below market. This estimate instead applies the county median $/acre from clean single-parcel arms-length ag sales (bulk multi-parcel deeds, government/exempt land, and nominal transfers excluded). An estimate, not an appraisal.
No distress filings on record for this parcel. We monitor county clerk recordings (NEDs, lis pendens, liens, judgements) and join them via fuzzy name match.
No active for-sale listings on record for this parcel. We track public-record foreclosure-sale lists (county Public Trustee) and attach them here when a sale is scheduled.
- 2007-03-28$760,000
Source: county assessor sale records.
18975 WEST 55TH CIR, GOLDEN, CO 80403
The land
What the ground itself is — cover, soils, buildability, water, minerals, and the public land around it.
- Farmland class
- Not prime farmland
- Land-capability (non-irrigated)
- 7e
- Drainage
- Well drained
- Hydrologic group
- B
- Slope
- 36%
- Avail. water capacity
- 0.08 cm/cm
- Steep terrain (~36% slope)
- Mean annual precipitation
- 17.7 in
- Mean annual snowfall
- 49 inModerate snow load
- Mean annual temperature
- 47°F
- Frost-free season
- 189 days/yr(long growing season)
Source: Open-Meteo Historical Weather archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 2014–2023 daily normals. Frost-free days count days whose overnight low stayed above 32°F. The snow-load band is a buyer-facing heuristic from annual snowfall, not an engineered ground-snow-load design value — confirm with the local building department before relying on it.
1 decreed water right on record (oldest priority 2001) — a transferable water asset that conveys with the land.
| Priority | Structure | Source | Decreed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-09-30 | GOSNEY POND(Reservoir)WDID 3003836 ↗ | COTTONWOOD GULCH | 2 A |
- Permitted wells
- 1
- Primary use
- Industrial
- Most recent permit
- 2010-07-21
Source: the Colorado Division of Water Resources well-permit registry (CDSS). These are WATER wells (domestic / irrigation / stock), not oil & gas wells. Descriptive, not legal advice — confirm the permit, decreed use, and yield with CO DWR before relying on them.
No oil & gas wells within ½ mile of this parcel. Sourced from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) public registry.
- USFS· NFSan Juan National Forestparcel inside unit boundary0 mi1,866K ac
Distance is measured to the nearest edge of each unit's bounding box (a fast approximation, not precise polygon containment). “Inside unit boundary” means the parcel centroid sits within the unit's bbox; verify against the unit's precise boundary before acting.
- Mineral rights designation
- Coal Only
- Federal estate acres overlapping
- 174,761
Source: BLM Colorado Federal Mineral Estate (Solid Colors). Split-estate ownership is common in the Western US — verify deed history and any mineral-rights conveyance/reservation before relying on this signal.
The risk
What could burn, flood, slide, or fail to insure — and how exposed this parcel actually is.
| Incident | Acres | Contained | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Blanco | 1,388 | 100% | 44.3 mi |
| Ferris | 64,881 | 100% | 55 mi |
- Wildfire damage potential (CO-WRA)
Unmapped▾
Wildfire damage potential is not yet mapped for this parcel.
- CO-WRA bld_dmg_pot tier
- Unmapped
- Acrescope wildfire component (0-100)
- 0
Source: Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA) · bld_dmg_pot
- FEMA flood zone
Zone X (minimal)▾
Zone X — minimal flood hazard mapped. Optional flood insurance still recommended for finished basements.
- FEMA NFHL zone
- X
- NFHL subtype
- AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD
- Special Flood Hazard Area
- No
- Acrescope flood component (0-100)
- 0
Actions that move this rating- Basement / finished-lower-level coverage — Even Zone X parcels can flood from snowmelt, hill runoff, or burst pipes. Confirm your homeowner policy covers below-grade water; add NFIP PRP if it does not.
- In Special Flood Hazard Area?
- No
- Nearest SNOTEL station
- Columbus Basin23.9 mi · 10,780 ftSnowpack reference for this area — link out for current SWE + 30-year normal.
- EPA radon zone
- Zone 2 — moderate potential (2–4 pCi/L)
Sources: Colorado Geological Survey statewide Landslide Inventory (mapped deposits, not a debris-flow susceptibility model), the EPA Map of Radon Zones (county-level), and the USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database. Descriptive, not legal or engineering advice — confirm slope stability, radon, and seismic conditions with a qualified professional before acting.
- Brownfields (ACRES) sites
- 1 · closest 2.87 mi
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- BFSOUTHERN UTE HOUSE AT 451 CR 320451 LA PLATA CR 320, IGNACIO2.87 mi
Source: EPA EMEF (Superfund NPL + Brownfields/ACRES). Brownfields often reflect HISTORICAL contamination that has been remediated; the registry includes both active and closed cases. Verify case status via the EPA profile link before drawing conclusions.
The owner
Who holds it, through what entity, and what else that owner holds.
- Entity name
- HIGH PLAINS PROPERTIES, LLC
- Status
- Good Standing
- State of formation
- CO
- Formation date
- 1997-07-11
- Entity type
- DLLC
- Registered agent
- JOHN ROBERT ELAM
| Related entity | Status | Link | Parcels |
|---|---|---|---|
| JME INVESTMENTS, LLC(CO) | Good Standing | agent + address | 1 |
- Median household income
- $101,917
- Median home value
- $488,600
- Median gross rent
- $1,325/mo
- Median age
- 46
- Owner-occupied
- 79.8%(813 of 1,019 units)
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 38.6%
- Vacancy rate
- 9.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2022 5-year estimates, block group 080679404001. Block groups average ~1,500 people; these stats describe the surrounding community, not this parcel specifically.
- Verdict & action plan — full write-up with every claim cited to its record (free: summary above)
- Recommended diligence — the complete prioritized checklist for this parcel (free: top action above)
- Property & valuation — comp set, ag use-value adjustment, valuation walk-through (free: assessor value above)
- Land & stewardship — land cover, soils, buildability, regenerative potential
- Water & subsurface — each decreed right with priority date, WDID, and diversion history (free: counts above)
- Climate & hazards — burn history, insurability workup, mitigation rebate stack (free: tiers above)
- Distress & ownership — filing-by-filing record and the owner’s full entity network (free: flags above)
- Sources & methodology — every source record linked, dated, and retrievable
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- Parcel ID
- 977e07d2-2ea8-4da8-9c0c-ae8ae1af194f
- APN
- 590535300617
- Schedule
- 590535300617
- Assessor record
- 2026-08-22
- Sale history
- 2026-06-02
- Water rights
- 2026-08-20
- Well permits
- 2026-06-09
- Oil & gas wells
- 2026-08-20
- Federal mineral estate
- 2026-08-22
- Flood zones
- 2026-06-03
- Fire perimeters
- 2026-08-24
- Distress filings
- 2026-08-24
- Entity registrations
- 2026-08-22
- Conservation easements
- 2026-06-11
The date our copy of that office’s records last changed — domains update on different cadences.