Bauer Bank Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Mancos is a statutory town in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,196 at the 2020 census, down from 1,336 in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Mancos, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 107 W. Grand Ave., Mancos, 81328
When was it listed? October 2003
Category. building
Census division. Mancos
National Register reference number. 03001009 - 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

75 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Bauer Bank Block between 1993 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 58 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	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	SUMMIT
3 September 1995	Natural	5.0 acres	Montezuma County	not named
15 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	WEBER 2
12 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	FLINT ROCK
8 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	MEMEFEE
22 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Ute Mountain Ute Agency	WEBERSLOPE
21 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	MUD FORK
21 August 2007	Natural	10 acres	Tres Rios Field Office	JOES CANYON

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bauer Bank Block: 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. 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
Champion Mill	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
East Mancos River Placers	Gold	Past Producer
Unk	Gold	Prospect
Vulcan Placer	Gold	Past Producer
West Mancos River Placers	Gold	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mancos, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mancos	4 hurt, $50,000	no account filed
August 2024	Debris Flow	Mancos	$10,000	Heavy rainfall to the northeast of Mesa Verde National Park fell on the afternoon of August 25th, with estimated rainfall rates in excess of 2 inches per hour for around 10 minutes. That puts the rainfall total along County Road 41, in this area, at 0.25-0.35 inches. The debris flow resulted in the closure of the road and damage to the road in at least 2 locations.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mancos	$5,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mancos	$2,000	no account filed
August 2010	Lightning	Mancos	$1,000	Electricity was lost to around 234 consumers when a pole was ignited by a lightning strike that occurred on the western edge of Mancos.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Mancos	-	About 3 miles northwest of Mancos 1.74 inches of rain was measured within a 24-hour period, with 0.80 of that amount having fallen within 40 minutes.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Mancos	-	Runoff from heavy rainfall ran over 6 inches deep across the intersection of Colorado Highway 184 and County Road 40.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Mancos	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.5 inches fell within a 100 minute time period.
July 2007	Funnel Cloud	Mancos	-	no account filed
August 2005	Heavy Rain	Mancos	-	no account filed
August 2005	Heavy Rain	Mancos	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Mancos	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Mancos	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Mancos	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Mancos	-	no account filed
May 2002	Wildfire	Mancos	-	no account filed
June 2001	Wildfire	Mancos	-	no account filed
October 2000	Hail	Mancos	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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

4 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
Wrightsman House	under 500 feet	1997
Mancos High School	0.2 miles	1991
Mancos Opera House	0.6 miles	1988
Entrance Residence, Check Station Residence	6.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001009 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montezuma 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.