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Photograph of Old Trail School
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Trail School, Old

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Old Trail School, at 421 High St. in Wiggins, Colorado, is a historic one-room schoolhouse which was built around 1912. It has also been known as the Reed School, presumably because it was located on the Reed family homestead.”

Wikipedia article Old Trail School (Wiggins, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1912.

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. 421 High St., Wiggins, 80654
  • When was it listed? April 2004
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Wiggins
  • When was it built? 1912
  • National Register reference number. 04000337 - 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

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Trail School, Old between 2011 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined395 acresMorgan CountyIA 387
21 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
25 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
19 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWIGGINS

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiggins, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 46 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWiggins$100,000Intense thunderstorm winds destroyed an outbuilding and a pivot sprinkler on a farm. A semi-trailer traveling along Interstate 76 was also blown on its side. The driver was uninjured although the damage to his truck was extensive.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Mesonet station Wiggins Bijou Creek.
June 2024HailWiggins-Heavy rain and strong winds also accompanied the thunderstorm.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Wiggins Bijou Creek mesonet weather station CO039.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Personal weather station hit 70 mph.
July 2021LightningWiggins-Lightning sparked a grass fire.
May 2019HailWiggins-Hail accumulated up to 3 inches in depth in Wiggins.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWiggins-The storm also produced small hail and heavy rain, 1.4 inches in 20 minutes.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Wiggins-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
October 1994HailWiggins-Hail covered ground one to two inches deep in and near Wiggins in western Morgan County. Thunderstorms containing heavy rain and large hail moved northeastward off of the foothills and onto the plains. The counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Larimer, Morgan, Washington and Weld were the most affected by the line of thunderstorms. Costly damage was sustained to homes and vehicles in the urban corridor area with only minor street flooding reported. Emergency claim teams from insurance companies were sent out due to the overwhelming number of claims. Total damage estimates from the hail storm was at $174 million with $96.5 million for homes and $77.0 million for automobiles.
May 1993HailWiggins-Thunderstorms crossed through parts of three counties, dropping dime-size hail from Commerce City to Wiggins.
June 2025HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2023HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2023HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2019HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2019HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2018HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2018HailWiggins-no account filed
July 2016HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2015HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2014HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2009HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2009HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2004HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2002HailWiggins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000337 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan CountyAll 15 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.
  • 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.