National Archives at Denver

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:denver.archives@nara.gov denver.archives@nara.gov]

Address:


 * Regional Archives
 * Building 48
 * Denver Federal Center
 * Lakewood, Colorado


 * Microfilm Research
 * Building 46
 * Denver Federal Center
 * Lakewood, Colorado

Telephone: 303-407-5751, or 303-407-5740 Fax:  303-407-5709

Hours and holidays: Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Directions, maps, and public transportation:


 * By Car from Downtown Denver: Take Broadway south to Eighth Avenue; Eighth west to Kalamath Street; Kalamath south to U.S. Highway 6 (West Sixth Avenue); U.S. Highway 6 west about 5 miles to Kipling Street. The facility is at West Sixth Avenue and Kipling Street. Go south on Kipling 1/2 mile to Gate 1 of the Denver Federal Center. A photo ID (driver's license) is required to enter.


 * Once you are at the Denver Federal Records Center, the Archives are located at Fifth and North Street.
 * Take Main Street to Fifth
 * Go north on Fifth to just before North Avenue
 * Visitor parking areas are northwest and east of Building 48.


 * Denver Federal Center Map
 * Public Transportation: Call Regional Transportation District, 303-299-6000, for route and schedule.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) Internet site shows what's new, workshops, programs, archival holdings, finding aids, FAQs, censuses, court, military, passenger arrivals, and Utah polygamy cases.
 * Family History/Genealogy Research page for the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)
 * Access to Archival Databases (AAD) a search engine into some of NARA's holdings of electronic records. Search by person, geographic areas, organizations, or dates.
 * Archival Research Catalog (ARC) the online catalog of over 63% of NARA's nationwide holdings. Searches by keywords, by location, organization, person, or topics, and for digitized images.
 * Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) American history and government, archival administration, information management, and government documents for archivists, librarians, and the public.

Collection Description
Serves Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Includes Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, Air Force Acadamy, Bureau of Indian Affiars, National Park Service, naturalizations for CO, MT, NM, UT, U.S. Food Administration, Denver Mint, Internal Revenue Service, Forest Service, federal censuses 1790-1930 and selected indexes, Indian censuses, passenger arrival lists, military service through the Spanish American War, World War I draft registrations for CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, military pension and bounty land, Utah polygamy trials, court records of appeals, bankruptcy, criminal and civil cases in CO, MT, NM, ND, SD, UT, WY, and other states, U.S. diplomacy, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Native American-Government relations, westward expansion, and World War II, tours, genealogy workshops, and presentations.

Tips
Over 68% of the Regional Archives' records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Northeast Region staff.

Guides

 * Guide to Archival Holdings at NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) record group level descriptions of archival holdings including agency administrative history.
 * List of Frequently Requested Archival Holdings at NARA's Rocky Mountain Region
 * Federal Records Guide Search NARA's holdings of federal records at a very high level, to identify which record groups may have material about your research topics. Alphabetical index to the Federal Records Guide. Record Groups by topic clusters in the Federal Records Guide.
 * Last Name Index to Naturalization Records (New Mexico), 1860-1963
 * Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in the Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration, RIP 99, 1996. Selected information pertains to records at the Denver facility.
 * Loretto Dennis Szucs, and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1988) ( 977 A3sz) WorldCat entry. Describes each field branch collection, microfilms, services and activities. Each of 150 record groups of the archives is also described.

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