Pleasant Valley School

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1879.

Sources: 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4032 N. Co. Rd. 25E, Bellvue, 80512
When was it listed? October 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Fort Collins
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 03001008 - 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,426 acres in total. 11 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	78
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2

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
27 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LAPORTE
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
10 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
1 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN
31 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LAPORTE
3 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DIVERSION
27 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Poudre Fire Authority	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley School: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Clay, Copper, Gold, Silver, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Challenger	Tungsten	Producer
Howes Gulch District	Copper, Gold, Silver	Producer	1873
Mt. Olympus Mine	Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar	Past Producer	1958, 1960
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Wahketa Lease	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Wahketa Lease	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1955

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellvue, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2013	Flash Flood	Bellvue	$25,000	Heavy rain produced debris and mud flows in the High Park burn area.
June 2009	Hail	Bellvue	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Bellvue	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bellvue	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Bellvue	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Jacob and Elizabeth Flowers House	1.4 miles	2007
Bingham Homestead Rural Historic Landscape	2.0 miles	2013
Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad-Stout Branch	2.5 miles	2008
Provost Homestead-Herring Farm Rural Historic Landscape	3.2 miles	2010
R. G. Maxwell House	4.3 miles	1980
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21	5.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer County	All 110 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.