BlockFrom the record
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Colusa County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Colusa Grammar School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 425 Webster St., Colusa, 95932
- When was it listed? June 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. East Colusa
- National Register reference number. 78000657 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
36 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Colusa Grammar School between 1999 and 2017, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | COL T5 |
| 24 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | LONESTAR |
| 24 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | HIGHWAY 20 |
| 18 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | COLT1.1 |
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | COLUSA REFUGE |
| 27 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colusa National Wildlife Refuge | 20COLUSA |
| 22 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge | COLUSA SHOOTING CLUB #2 |
| 21 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.1 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Colusa Grammar School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cortina Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colusa, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flood | Colusa | - | Colusa Landing RV Park along the Sacramento River within the levee flooded due to heavy rain and river flooding. |
| February 2019 | Hail | Colusa | - | Half dollar hail reported north of Colusa. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1907 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1918 USGS Powell Slough quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Lakeport quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Colusa Carnegie Library | 0.3 miles | 1990 |
 | Colusa High School and Grounds | 0.4 miles | 1976 |
 | Grand Island Shrine | 7.5 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000657 in Record Group 79. |
| Colusa County | All 5 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.