South Canon High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 2005 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1020 Park Ave., Canon City, 81212
When was it listed? October 2005
Category. building
Census division. Cañon City
National Register reference number. 00001648 - 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

711 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 711 fires within 5 miles of South Canon High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 705 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 3 were 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	593
Natural	41
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canon City Area Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)	UNKNOWN
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of South Canon High School: 20 producers, 16 past producers, 10 occurrences, 1 plant. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, Gold, Clay. 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
Colonna	Marble, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Cotter Mill (facility)	Uranium, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Dawson Mountain-Surprise Group	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1902
Devils Hole Quarry	Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar	Producer
Horse Shoe & El Ploma	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Meyers Mine	Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Lithium, Uranium, Copper, Bismuth, Lead	Producer	1929, 1942
Mica Lode Mine	Quartz, Mica, Feldspar, Beryllium, REE, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Copper, Lithium, Bismuth	Past Producer	1904, 1928
R. H. Magnuson Mine	Feldspar, Quartz, Beryllium	Prospect	Beryl, Microcline, Quartz
Suzana Pegmatite	Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica	Occurrence	1940
Unidentified Occurrence	Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Uranium	Past Producer	Microcline, Muscovite

Every working recorded in Fremont 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Canon City Downtown Historic District	0.7 miles	1983
Canon City Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.7 miles	1986
Samuel H. Atwater House	0.7 miles	1996
First Presbyterian Church	0.7 miles	1983
McClure House	0.8 miles	1979
US Post Office and Federal Building-Canon City Main	0.8 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001648 in Record Group 79.
Fremont County	All 25 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.