BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Canyon (Canon) Creek School, District No. 32
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 0566 Cty Rd. 137, Glenwood Springs, 81601
- When was it listed? January 2004
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. New Castle
- National Register reference number. 03001360 - 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
139 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Canyon (Canon) Creek School, District No. 32 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,750 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 1 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 | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | RED MUD |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | RAILROAD |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | BEAR WALLO |
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | W S CANYON |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | E ELK CRK3 |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | TRAIL |
| 27 September 2001 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | POSSUM CRK |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Canyon (Canon) Creek School, District No. 32: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revelation Group | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| New Castle | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| East Canyon Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | South Canon Bridge | 2.6 miles | 1985 |
 | Hotel Colorado | 6.6 miles | 1977 |
 | Citizens National Bank Building | 7.0 miles | 1999 |
 | Western Hotel | 7.1 miles | 2016 |
 | Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric Plant | 7.1 miles | 1998 |
 | Edward T. Taylor House | 7.2 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03001360 in Record Group 79. |
| Garfield County | All 20 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.