County Road 54
Meeker, CO 81641
NORTH ELK, INC. C/O STRAUSS, JOE · Rio Blanco County, CO
Registered entity: NORTH ELK, INC. (Good Standing)
Needs review means a record exists that requires verification. No record means nothing is on file — which is not an all-clear.
A split estate — the minerals beneath are federally owned.
Action plan for this parcel
- 1.
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.
- 2.
Verify augmentation plans + diligence on the priority date
Recommendedwater5 water rights with oldest priority 1891. In Colorado's prior-appropriation system, this puts the parcel near the front of the call line in dry years — verify augmentation plan membership and any pending change-of-use applications.
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The deal
What this parcel is worth, what encumbers it, and what its paper trail says — value, distress, listings, sales, and tax.
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.
401 COUNTY ROAD 137, GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO 81601
The land
What the ground itself is — cover, soils, buildability, water, minerals, and the public land around it.
No significant build constraints in the data available for this parcel.
Partial coverage — based on the soil/geohazard layers present for this parcel; the read sharpens as those backfill.
- Mean annual precipitation
- 25.0 in
- Mean annual snowfall
- 107 inHeavy snow load
- Mean annual temperature
- 42°F
- Frost-free season
- 176 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.
Senior decreed water with priority back to 1891 — a senior priority date under Colorado prior appropriation; what actually conveys, and on what terms, is established by the decrees and title diligence.
| Priority | Structure | Source | Decreed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-10-16 | WESTSIDE2(Spring)WDID 4303137 ↗ | WHITE RIVER | 0.002 C |
| 1935-07-02 | MACLEAR NO 1 DITCH(Ditch)WDID 4300785 ↗ | NORTH ELK CREEK | 0.28 C |
| 1920-12-31 | CROSS BAR Z D NO 1(Ditch)WDID 4300591 ↗ | NORTH ELK CREEK | 0.5 C |
| 1965-09-01 | NORTH ELK RANCH WELL(Well)WDID 4305069 ↗ | GROUNDWATER: NORTH ELK CREEK | — |
| 1965-09-01 | N ELK DOM PUMP & PL(Pump)WDID 4302288 ↗ | NORTH ELK CREEK | 0.066 C |
No oil & gas wells within ½ mile of this parcel. Sourced from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) public registry.
- USFS· NFWhite River National Forestparcel inside unit boundary0 mi2,289K 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
- No Minerals
- Federal estate acres overlapping
- 766
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 310 | 603 | 100% | 34.8 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
- Elevation
- 7,257 ft · 2,212 m
- Nearest SNOTEL station
- Burro Mountain3.8 mi · 9,290 ftSnowpack reference for this area — link out for current SWE + 30-year normal.
- Fires within 5 mi
- 4
- Most recent
- Elk Ridge — 2019
- Total acres burned within 5 mi
- 6,743
Show all 4 fires ▾
- Elk Ridge2019<1 ac· 4.7 mi
- Cabin Lake20186,070 ac· 3.0 mi
- Langlas Draw2003668 ac· 5.0 mi
- Sawmill20025 ac· 3.6 mi
The owner
Who holds it, through what entity, and what else that owner holds.
- Entity name
- NORTH ELK, INC.
- Status
- Good Standing
- State of formation
- CO
- Formation date
- 1993-02-25
- Entity type
- DPC
- Registered agent
- JOSEPH HOWARD STRAUSS
| Related entity | Status | Link | Parcels |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAND PARK LLC(CO) | Good Standing | shared address | 1 |
| Canyon Creek Properties, LLC(CO) | Good Standing | shared address | 1 |
- Median home value
- $416,900
- Median age
- 44.3
- Owner-occupied
- 47%(215 of 457 units)
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 28.6%
- Vacancy rate
- 49.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2022 5-year estimates, block group 081039511001. 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
$99 per parcel — less than a third of one hour with the water attorney it tells you whether you need.
- Parcel ID
- e1397032-0409-4c0a-ab80-3a62f7bc3976
- APN
- 167112200005
- Schedule
- R0700150
- 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.