Pure Home Pest connects Fountain homeowners with independent providers, serving a town whose 1888 depot blast has never had an explained cause.
Call (844) 924-1337Fountain's own name has a gentler origin than its most famous night. French trappers called the creek that runs through here Fontaine Qui Bouille, meaning boiling fountain or boiling spring, a name later shortened to plain Fountain. The area was homesteaded in 1859, though the town itself did not incorporate until 1903, and by the 1880s it had grown enough to support two competing railroads, enough that some residents at the time genuinely thought Fountain might grow to rival Colorado Springs. Then, at roughly 2:50 in the morning on May 14, 1888, five freight cars broke loose from a train stopped thirteen miles away in Colorado Springs and rolled downhill into the Fountain depot, where a passenger train from Pueblo happened to be stopped for the night. One car, carrying naphtha oil, ignited on impact, and residents formed a bucket brigade to try to save the depot before someone realized a second car held roughly 17,000 to 18,000 pounds of an explosive known as giant powder, bound for the mines at Leadville, and that it too had caught fire. The conductor's warning gave people only minutes to get clear before the blast leveled much of the town, left a crater behind, and destroyed two locomotive engines and fourteen rail cars, a disaster serious enough that the New York Times covered it from Colorado. Locally, people still just call it The Blast. Contemporary accounts disagree on the exact toll, reporting at least three deaths and as many as five, along with roughly nineteen injured. What has never been settled, though, is what actually caused it. No one ever established how those freight cars came loose in the first place, and because a body with a head injury turned up in the wreckage, a local theory has persisted for well over a century that the cars were released on purpose to cover up a killing, though nobody ever proved it. One physical piece of that night survived and is still standing: the steeple of a church destroyed in the blast was salvaged afterward and now sits atop the Fountain Independent Baptist Church, a real, present day landmark carried forward from the town's worst night. That mix of a still open historical question and a literal surviving piece of it gives Fountain a genuinely different kind of civic memory than most Front Range towns, one where some of the oldest surviving structures near downtown carry a documented, if unresolved, history worth knowing before assuming every property here has the same straightforward building background.
Fountain's own building stock, from structures that went up in the rebuild after its documented 1888 depot disaster, through its 1903 incorporation, and on to its newer subdivisions, means any provider working here needs the right state credential whatever era of the town the property actually belongs to. Colorado regulates pest control through the Department of Agriculture's pesticide licensing program rather than a dedicated structural pest control board. Anyone applying pesticides for compensation must hold a Commercial Applicator license in the specific category matching the work performed, such as Wood Destroying Organism Pest Control, Outdoor Vertebrate Pest Control, or Residential and Commercial Pest Control, and must pass a proctored exam for every category in which they plan to work. Licenses are valid for three years and expire on the applicator's birthdate. Nuisance wildlife removal sits outside this system almost entirely: Colorado Parks and Wildlife does not require a permit to remove most nuisance wildlife from a property, since state law leaves that determination to the landowner, though professional operators typically still carry CPW authorization along with liability insurance. That means a Colorado pest control license genuinely covers pesticide based treatment work, while trapping and wildlife exclusion follow a different, lighter regulatory path. Call (844) 924-1337 and we can point you toward a provider who covers Fountain.
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