First Presbyterian Church of Eckert

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Eckert Presbyterian Church previously known as First Presbyterian Church of Eckert is an historic church in Eckert, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Eckert Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 13011 and 13025 CO 65, Eckert, 81418
When was it listed? January 2006
Category. building
Census division. Cedaredge
National Register reference number. 05001507 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Eckert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	21
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	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
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delta County Fire Protection District #1	UNKNOWN
20 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN
18 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN
16 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Hotchkiss Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	N/A
7 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delta County Fire Protection District #1	UNKNOWN
15 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Eckert: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Donegan Lease	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Davis and Spaulding Property	Aluminum	Unknown
Various	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum	Unknown
Delta County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Hallenbeck Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eckert, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Eckert	$50,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Eckert	-	Marble-size hail caused considerable damage to peach and apple orchards near Eckert (38 miles southeast of Grand Junction).

Every storm recorded in Delta 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

5 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
Surface Creek Livestock Company Silos	5.5 miles	2000
Stolte House	6.7 miles	1997
Garnethurst	7.8 miles	1995
US Post Office and Federal Building-Delta Main	8.0 miles	1986
Delta County Bank Building	8.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001507 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta County	All 16 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.