Debs School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Debs School is an historic rural schoolhouse that was built in 1926 in Hinsdale County, Colorado. It is located near Pagosa Springs, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Debs School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hinsdale County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2783 McManus Rd., Pagosa Springs, 81147
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Lake City
National Register reference number. 05000338 - 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

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Debs School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 91 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	91
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
22 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	San Juan National Forest	WAINWRIGHT
16 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	CF 1129
8 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	FALLS
5 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	ROOSTER 2
3 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	PLUMTAW
3 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	PLUMTAW
29 August 2019	Natural	2.8 acres	San Juan National Forest	ORLANDO
29 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	ICE CAVE

Every fire recorded in Hinsdale County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Debs School: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Jim Tree	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hinsdale 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 05000338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hinsdale County	All 6 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.