Montezuma Schoolhouse

Built in 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Montezuma Schoolhouse, at 5375 Webster St. in Montezuma, Colorado, was built as a rural schoolhouse in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Montezuma Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1884.

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. 5375 Webster St., Montezuma, 80435
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Breckenridge
When was it built? 1884
National Register reference number. 06001239 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Montezuma Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	20
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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 2005	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	BERGMAN
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	WEBSTER
5 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	MONTEZUMA
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	TOWER 6
28 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Summit County	WEBSTER
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	White River National Forest	PORCUPINE
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	White River National Forest	RADICAL

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 132 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 132 workings within 5 miles of Montezuma Schoolhouse: 91 past producers, 31 producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lead, 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	Recorded
Allan Emory Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1875
Aorta No 1	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Arrastre Queen Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1800, 1881
Atlantic	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Bismuth	Producer
Bell	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Producer	Argentite, Galena, Gold, Proustite, Sphalerite
Blind Tom	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Manganese	Producer
Bullion	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Pyrite, Galena
Cashier Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Producer	Vein
Jones Gulch Claims	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Lenawee Mine	Molybdenum, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth	Occurrence	Molybdenite

Every working recorded in Summit 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Soda Creek Ranch	6.9 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001239 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 8 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.