Valley View School

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Valley View School, at 8465 County Road 140 about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Salida, Colorado was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Valley View School (Salida, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1903.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8465 Co. Rd. 140, Salida, 81201
When was it listed? October 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Salida
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 03001006 - 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

115 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Valley View School between 1996 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 14 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	79
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	DEAD HORSE
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salida Fire Department	UNKNOWN
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Arkansas Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
18 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	BLANK
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
31 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Arkansas Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Valley View School: 28 past producers, 16 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bonus Extension Group	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica, Feldspar	Producer	1955
Cleora District	Copper, Tungsten, Gold	Past Producer	1870
Marvel	Mica	Occurrence	Mica
Polly No 4	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Poncha Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
R D H Mill	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Salt Creek	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Sedalia	Copper, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Sedalia Mine	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	1878, 1883, 1923
Black Beauty Deposit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Limonite, Pyrolusite, Rhodonite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this property

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salida, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
July 2003	Lightning	Salida	$50,000	no account filed
August 2022	Debris Flow	Salida	-	A boulder the size of an engine was reported to have fallen into the road of Highway 285.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Salida	-	County roads 110 and 111 were washed out.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Salida	-	Emergency management reported county roads 107 and 107A were flooded.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Salida	-	County Highway 101 is washed out near junction of Highway 50.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Salida	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of several county roads around Salida, including County Roads 107, 108, 111, and 291.
July 2013	Hail	Salida	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Salida	-	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Salida	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaffee 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
Hutchinson Ranch (Boundary Increase)	1.0 miles	2005
Chaffee County Poor Farm	1.3 miles	1985
Hutchinson Ranch	1.4 miles	1973
Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack	1.5 miles	1976
Pedro-Botz House	1.7 miles	2015
Poncha Springs Schoolhouse	2.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001006 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.