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Photograph of Mesa Schoolhouse
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mesa Schoolhouse

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Mesa Schoolhouse, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”

Wikipedia article Mesa Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1916.

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. 33985 S. US 40., Steamboat Springs, 80487
  • When was it listed? November 2007
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Steamboat Springs
  • When was it built? 1916
  • National Register reference number. 07001113 - 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Mesa Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined18
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandFERNDALE
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandFROLF
24 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPIONEER
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHEAVENLY RUN
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mesa Schoolhouse: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
Unknown QuarryStonePast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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 1995Tornado (F0)Steamboat Springs-A short lived, but rare tornado downed a tree.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Routt CountyAll 26 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.