Rimrock School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 24, Sapinero, 81220
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Sapinero
National Register reference number. 00001195 - 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.

Fires near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rimrock School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GUNNISON
5 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	BIG BLUE
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	STUMPY CRK
8 July 2002	Natural	2.5 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	DRY FIRE
4 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	STUMPY RD
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	MORROW P 2
25 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GUNNISON
17 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rimrock School: 6 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Canyon Beryl Prospect	Beryllium	Occurrence	1943
Black Canyon Beryl Prospect	Mica, Beryllium, Feldspar	Prospect
Black Mesa Lode	Manganese	Past Producer
Goat Hill Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Goat Hill #1	Mica	Occurrence
Mica Property	Mica	Occurrence
Muscovite #1	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sapinero, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 2 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. The reports record 1 death. 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
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sapinero	1 killed	no account filed
August 2021	Debris Flow	Sapinero	$10,000	Heavy rain in the Cimarrons produced intermittent flash flooding and a debris flow of rocks and branches on National Forest Service Road 861.1 (Middle Fork Road), near the Owl Creek Pass junction.
June 2002	Wildfire	Sapinero	-	no account filed
July 2002	Wildfire	Sapinero	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gunnison County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001195 in Record Group 79.
Gunnison County	All 21 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.